The Telangana High Court addressed a serious violation of a visitation order after an advocate-mother relocated three minor children to Bhopal without permission. Holding the act to be wilful disobedience, the Court directed the immediate return of the children so the mother could first purge the contempt before defending her actions.

Minor daughter’s custody granted to mother in an application filed by the applicant-wife against the rejection of her appeal filed against the Trial Court’s orders granting the wife only visitation rights for her minor daughter (‘the child’), the Single Judge Bench of Vinod Diwakar, J., allowed the application, granting the custody of the child to the wife. The Court held that the husband first orchestrated a fabricated story to remove the child from wife’s care and then made

In a case concerning custody of a 9-year-old son, Single Judge Bench of Shailesh P. Brahme, J. held that when the personal law is pitted with comfort and welfare of the child, latter would have upper hand, quashing the order granting custody to the respondent-father, granting him only visitation rights with temporary custody. [X v. Y, 2025 SCC OnLine Bom 2721].

5-year old’s custody to grandmother, denied In a habeas corpus petition filed to seek the custody of child from her paternal grandmother, by the petitioner-biological father of the child, the Division Bench of Ravindra V. Ghuge and Gautam A. Ankhad*, JJ., opined that welfare of the child is of paramount importance in the custody dispute therefore, emotional bond with the child does not confer upon her a superior right to custody over that of the biological parent. Thus, the C