A 25 year old woman named Savita, a student at Choudary Charan Singh University from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was forced to marry against her will earlier this year. After 5 months she left her husband after informing him that she was a lesbian. Moreover she announced that she was in a relationship with an Indian woman named Veena (also written Bina), 20. The district court in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi, granted a divorce…and then gave Savita its approval for a marriage to Veena. So on July 22 they became the first married lesbian couple in India. In order to conform with custom, Savita was designated the "husband" and Veena the "wife".
Well, all this didn't go down too well with the people in their village of Baghpat. They received threats from relatives and friends. So they returned to court in Gurgaon and 14 relatives and other villagers who had threatened them we served notice of "dire consequences" if they were harmed. Honor killings have been the rule in the area for some time. And the court assigned them 24-hour police protection.
Yesterday we heard:
The couple has been shifted to a safe house and we have provided adequate security to them on the court orders. The security is provided on the basis of threat perception and in this case the couple feared that their families might be against the relationship.
--Dr. Abhe Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police
But today we are provided with the following: Lesbian couple goes missing from Gurgaon.
Unconfirmed reports have them attempting suicide by jumping in front of a moving train. The police say that the couple left the court before a gunman (presumably their protection) reached there. Manesar police searched the village of Kasan where they had been staying but did not locate them.
Later in the evening however, Durgesh Bhokan (their lawyer) said that one of them had called him and said that they were safe.
They said that there is no problem and they would meet me in the court on Wednesday,
--Bhokan
Bina did tell him that they feared harm from Savita's family.
We know nothing about them. We don't know why they are creating trouble for the entire village? They should have approached police to get security, which the court has already ordered.
--Kasan villager Anil Kumar
We await further news.
There is video of the couple, but I don't speak the language.
Both girls hail from Khekhra. Savita and Veena were childhood friends and later had a lesbian relationship. Savita was married to a boy by her family last year, but the marriage broke down after five months. After Savita revealed her lesbian relationship with Veena, the family opposed her move.
--India TV news