Allahabad High Court: Gender-sensitive, emotionally intelligent, & child-centred judicial approach required in custody of minor girls

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 the wife move out of the couple’s home solely to connivingly retain custody of the child.

[X v. State of UP, 2025 SCC OnLine All 3269].