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Tears in Calcutta HC as judges order reunion of minor sisters with parents after 3 years of separation over ‘torture’
February 08, 2026 7:13 pm
The Calcutta High Court order stated that to monitor the development and well-being of the three minor girls, the probation officer should submit quarterly reports to the Juvenile Justice Committee.
Don't force working mothers to exhaust themselves as fathers evade responsibility: Delhi High Court on child maintenance
December 30, 2025 11:54 am
Child maintenance Delhi High Court: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma took note of the social reality that a woman’s earning or employment does not absolve her of the financial, emotional, social, and other burdens connected with child-rearing.
Madras High Court orders woman locked in matrimonial feud with husband to cooperate for daughter's trip to NASA
December 11, 2025 8:46 pm
Madras High Court NASA Trip Passport: The minor’s father moved the high court, stating his daughter’s interest in space science and willingness for a school tour programme to NASA after his estranged wife refused to sign the child’s passport.
Jharkhand High Court says mother’s ‘mamta’ best suited for offspring, grants custody to woman
December 04, 2025 2:38 pm
Jharkhand High Court in Child Custody Case: The bench reffered to empirical studies that show mother-infant “bonding” begins at the child's birth and that infants frequently show signs of distress when the mother is replaced by a substitute caregiver.
Mother returns from Australia to get son amid custody battle, uncle goes to court
April 30, 2025 5:45 pm
The Punjab and Haryana High Court stressed the child’s wishes in an ongoing custody dispute between his parents.
Claiming to be her mother, 2 women fight for custody of 3-year-old found at Mathura railway station
December 22, 2023 4:44 pm
The Mathura police are now awaiting the results of a DNA test to ascertain the girl’s real parents.
Why baby Ariha Shah got taken from her parents in Germany
June 17, 2023 12:19 pm
In a case which evokes memories of the story recently portrayed in Rani Mukherjee’s ‘Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway’, Ariha Shah was taken from her Indian parents by German authorities when she was just seven months old.
German court order cannot overrule child’s best interests: Karnataka HC
March 16, 2023 4:08 pm
The court of Justice Alok Aradhe was hearing a case involving the custody of a child who was brought from Germany to India by her mother.
HC directs Pune woman to grant consent for renewal of residency of minor son staying with husband in Denmark
March 21, 2022 1:19 am
Following strain in their marital relations, the couple decided to seek a divorce by mutual consent. While the respondent wife left Denmark in March last year, the husband and the minor child remained in Copenhagen.
Custody battle: Gujarat High Court gives priority to 13-year-old’s desire, allows him to stay with foster father
January 22, 2021 6:31 pm
The boy, born to a Botad couple in 2006, was adopted by his father’s sister and her then husband. The adoption was formalised by December 2008.
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