Lucknow, Sept. 18 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has observed that an adult woman has the legal right to choose whom she wants to live with. With this observation, the court set at liberty a major woman, who said she was illegally detained by her father after marrying a man of a different religion.

Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed the judgment on September 11, which was uploaded recently, while allowing the habeas corpus petition filed by the woman through her husband/next friend.

The court directed that she be set at liberty from her father's custody, after she categorically stated that she wanted to live with her husband.

According to the petition, the woman came in contact with Gurpreet Singh through social media i...