Bombay High Court refuses to transfer an 11-year-old girl's custody from the neighbours who raised her since infancy back to her biological parents, holding the child's expressed preference and emotional stability could not be disregarded.
Bombay High Court sets aside a Pune Family Court order that handed a minor boy's interim custody to his father after the lower court sermonised on the "pious duties" of a wife, holding such stereotyped reasoning is regressive and has no place in a child-welfare determination.
Bombay High Court holds a 65-year-old father who receives both his own pension and his late wife's family pension is not a senior citizen "unable to maintain himself" under the Senior Citizens Act, and so cannot claim maintenance from his son.