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The Bombay High Court directed restoration of custody of a minor child to her father in habeas corpus proceedings, observing that emotional attachment with the maternal aunt could not override the father’s undisputed legal right without any evidence showing that custody with him would be detrimental to the child’s welfare.
Observing that a birth certificate is a person’s first public identity document and that leaving the father’s name blank could inflict lasting psychological and social harm upon the child, the Kerala High Court directed the inclusion of the biological father’s name in the birth certificate.
The DHC Women Lawyers Forum organised a public debate on granting fathers a veto over abortion decisions with legal luminaries arguing for and against the motion.
“Judged by moral standards of the CWC members, the petitioner may not be a good person, but that does not make her a bad mother.”
Though petitioner’s parents have supported her sister’s decision to stay with Respondent 1 and his daughters due to her state of depression after losing her husband and daughter in the accident, this cannot be a consideration for this Court to consider that petitioner’s sister is the biological mother of petitioner’s daughters merely because she is the egg donor.