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‘Pious wife’ and ‘Bahu’ remarks unwarranted and regressive, cannot replace child-welfare assessment: Bombay HC sets aside family court’s interim custody order

The Court held that the Family Court had not appreciated the jurisdictional parameters of Section 12, Guardians and Wards Act and had failed to independently assess the physical, emotional, educational or psychological welfare of the child while directing change of interim custody.

Case Briefs High Courts

Calcutta High Court refuses to consider order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for binding Trial Judge to stay anti-arbitration suit

The Calcutta High Court said that the principle of comity of nations and comity of courts had been recognized by the Indian Courts by giving adequate weightage to orders or decrees of a foreign court while deciding any proceeding in a domestic court.

Case Briefs High Courts

Principle of comity of courts is salutary in nature and cannot override the consideration of best interest and welfare of the child: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court, while deliberating over a father’s prayer seeking repatriation of his minor son to Germany, dismissed the petition on ground of the child’s best interests and allowed the son to remain with his mother in India.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Abu Salem can’t be kept behind bars for more than 25 years, holds Supreme Court. Here’s why

Supreme Court: In a big development, the bench of Sanjay Kishan Kaul* and MM Sundresh, JJ has directed that the infamous gangster/terrorist