P&H: Directs grandparents to hand over six-year-old girl to mother
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the paternal relatives of a six-year-old girl to hand over her custody to her mother, Amandeep Kaur. Justice Sumeet Goel held that, on the facts before the Court, the child’s welfare favoured temporary custody with her mother.
Kaur approached the High Court seeking a habeas corpus direction, alleging that her in-laws had taken the child when she left the matrimonial home in October 2025 and had refused to return her. She said that her efforts to secure the child’s return, including approaching the police and convening a panchayat, had not succeeded.
The...