Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 348 · Decided 30 July 2003
David Jude v. Hannah Grace Jude and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 348 · [2003] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 978
- Case number
- CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 261/2000
- Decided
- 30 July 2003
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, ARUN KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Contempt
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 129, 142
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971-Litigation with regard to custody of child-Supreme Court granting interim custody to the mother-Permission to C take child abroad on condition of furnishing an undertaking to bring back the child to India before Family Court when required-Breach of undertaking/ as they played with the Court in not abiding with the undertaking-Thus, on account of their defiant and contemptuous allitude no lenient view could be taken-Order of conviction and sentence D passed.-Conslitution of India, 1950-Artic/es 129 and 142. Litigation arose between the applicant-husband
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