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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court premises witnessed dramatic scenes on Tuesday after a 11-year-old child refused to go with his father despite an order by the Court directing the maternal relative of the child to hand over the child’s custody to the father.
The child broke free from the father’s grip and ran back into the High Court building when the father attempted to take the child with him.
A scuffle also broke out between the maternal relatives and the father.
Eventually, the Court sat again and castigated the lawyer appearing for the maternal relatives of the child.
It then once again ordered the maternal relatives to hand over the custody of the child to the father at the Kasturba Marg police station.
By way of background, the father had moved for the custody of the child after the mother passed away.
He got an order in his favour from the High Court in February 2022 which was upheld by the Supreme Court in September 2022.
However, since the order was not complied with, the father moved the present contempt of court petition.
The father claimed that the maternal grandfather and uncle were refusing to handover the custody of the child and tutoring the kid not to go with his father after his mother passed away three years ago due to cancer.
Around 2.30 pm, a division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik passed an order in the contempt petition directing smooth handover of the minor to the father in the High Court premises with the assistance of the police.
