“Gender-sensitive, emotionally intelligent, & child-centered judicial approach required in custody of minor girls”: Allahabad HC grants minor daughter’s custody to mother
“The principle that the father is the natural guardian of the minor child-boy or unmarried girl, and after him, the mother is primarily derived from section 6 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, though seminal at its time. Now it smacks patriarchal bias, therefore, become obsolete in the progressive realities of 21st- century in India”