Minor claims torture by mother,panel orders probe

“My brother and me are unsafe here with our mother and want to stay with our papa in Dubai but she has stolen our passports. I filed a complaint against her at Byculla police station on February 6. My mother fought with my father and got bruises,which she used against him to file a fake complaint in Dubai. She has brought us to India and never allows us to go back,” she said.

The father told the commission Tuesday his daughter and three-and-a-half-year-old son had suffered “mental and physical torture” at the hands of his wife.

“My son’s life is at stake. I hope you take action and help me save my child,” he said. Dalwai examined the girl concluded in his report dated June 8 that she was “an intelligent child who has strong reservations about staying with her mother and prefers to stay with her further”.