PRAYAGRAJ, April 25 -- The Allahabad high court has said that police are doing a great disservice by registering FIRs and chasing young couples who have married of their own free will.

In its April 21 order, the bench comprising Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena while coming down heavily on the disturbing trend of the police in registering FIRs and investigating consensual marriages, instead of probing other crimes, directed the director general of police, UP, to take remedial action in such cases.

With this direction, the high court quashed an FIR lodged against a couple (petitioners) who married of their own will, stressing that no one has the right to tell a major where he or she will stay, or with whom he or she will live, m...