Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 1036 · Decided 19 December 2024
Sugirtha v. Gowtham
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 1036 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 2089
- Case number
- No. 14833/2024
- Decided
- 19 December 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1)(ia)
Headnote
Whether a child can be made to travel 300 kms to enable the father to exercise visitation rights to the child. Matrimonial disputes between parents should not be an impediment to a child's right to have company of both parents - Interest of the and grave allegations between parents should not be an impediment to a child's right to have care, company, and affection of both the parents - Though the child was in the care of the father for only 2 months after his birth, it would not compromise the right of the father to visit
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