Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 562 · Decided 23 September 2020
Sri Nilanjan Bhattacharya v. The State of Karanataka and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 562 · [2020] 14 S.C.R. 445
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3284/2020
- Decided
- 23 September 2020
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, INDU MALHOTRA, K.M. JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Custody - Of minor child - Parens patriae jurisdiction - Appellant and second respondent got married in India in 2012 - Moved to the US in April 2015 - A son was born in December 2016 - Second respondent came to India with the child in March 2019 and stayed granted legal and temporary custody of the minor child by Superior Court of New Jersey in May 2019 - Petition for habeas corpus filed by appellant before High Court of Karnataka in August 2019 - Division Bench vide order dtd. 07.04.20, allowed the appellant to take the minor child
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