Anand also got to know that the girl was being forced to marry some other boy. “The marriage was to be held on Friday and I filed the habeas corpus plea on Thursday morning before Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice RG Ketkar. The judges immediately passed an order that the girl be produced in court on Monday. The court office informed the Pune police and a team was sent to the uncle’s house where the girl’s haldi ceremony was on. They took her into protective custody,” he said.

When the girl was brought to the court, the judges called the lovers together and asked if they are ready and willing to marry each other. “When we both agreed, they told us to go ahead and also convinced her mother about not creating any trouble for us,” said Anand.

On Saturday, the boy and girl got married at the Thane registrar office. Later, at the lawyer’s office, the two widely smiling love-birds said, “It is just fate and the support we got from the law that brought us together. Had things not worked out at the right time, this marriage would not have been possible.”