The Allahabad High Court has upheld a Family Court judgment declaring a woman to be the legally wedded widow of an Army personnel who died in an encounter with terrorists. A Division Bench comprising Justice Arindam Sinha and Justice Satya Veer Singh dismissed an appeal filed by the deceased soldier's parents, who disputed the marriage and claimed that only an engagement had taken place on 12.05.2007, with the marriage allegedly scheduled for 24.04.2008. The High Court found this later claim inconsistent with the appellants' own earlier pleadings before the Gujarat High Court, where the deceased's mother had expressly admitted that her son had married the respondent on 12.05.2007.