‘Police have no business being nosy parkers, should investigate crimes, not marriages’: Allahabad HC

4 min readLucknowJul 30, 2026 12:27 AM IST In an interim order, the court had stayed the police investigation as well as the petitioners' arrest. Taking a note of an investigation in a case against a couple who married against wishes of the woman’s family, the Allahabad High Court came down heavily on the police officials concerned, observing that police should investigate crimes and not marriages and that they “ have no business in the matter to be nosy parkers”. In a July 27 order, a division bench of Justices JJ Munir and Tarun Saxena imposed a fine on the Bhadohi superintendent of police (SP) and the Suriyawan station house officer (SHO), and quashed the FIR lodged against the man by the woman’s father on charges of abduction to force her into marriage against her will.The bench stated