The Allahabad High Court has directed the State and private respondents to produce two minor children before it on September 25, on a habeas corpus petition by their father alleging that his estranged wife intends to convert them to Islam. The father has cited an FIR under the BNS and the UP anti-conversion law. The allegations are untested, and the Court has recorded no finding.
The Bombay High Court declined to hand interim custody of a girl to her biological parents from a neighbour couple who had raised her since infancy, holding that the welfare of the child, not the rights of the rival claimants, is paramount, and that uprooting a settled ten-year-old from the only home she has known […]
The Bombay High Court set aside a Family Court order that had handed a child’s custody to the father after sermonising on the “pious duties of a wife,” holding the reasoning “regressive,” rooted in “stereotypical and erroneous notions” of marriage, and irrelevant to the only question that mattered: the welfare of the child. Mumbai: The […]
The Supreme Court has ruled that psychological evaluation of a child should not be treated as a routine measure in custody disputes before Family Courts. The Court clarified that no assessment should be conducted if a psychologist’s report finds it unnecessary or undesirable for the child’s welfare.