{"id":118559,"date":"2026-07-02T06:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/has-obtaining-cop-cover-become-8th-ritual-for-a-valid-marriage-hc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:36:52","slug":"has-obtaining-cop-cover-become-8th-ritual-for-a-valid-marriage-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/has-obtaining-cop-cover-become-8th-ritual-for-a-valid-marriage-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Has obtaining cop cover become 8th ritual for a valid marriage: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madhya Pradesh High Court has cautioned lawyers against advising newlyweds to seek police protection without genuine threats, calling it a potential &#8220;eighth ritual&#8221; after marriage. The court&#8217;s observation came during a hearing where a woman alleged an advocate charged Rs 40,000 for her marriage and promised police protection. The bench emphasized advocates shouldn&#8217;t exploit young couples and directed an investigation into the institution arranging marriages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhya Pradesh High Court has cautioned lawyers against advising newlyweds to seek police protection without genuine threats, calling it a potential &#8220;eighth ritual&#8221; after marriage. The court&#8217;s observation came during a hearing where a woman alleged an advocate charged Rs 40,000 for her marriage and promised police protection. The bench emphasized advocates shouldn&#8217;t exploit young&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/has-obtaining-cop-cover-become-8th-ritual-for-a-valid-marriage-hc\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has obtaining cop cover become 8th ritual for a valid marriage: HC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}