DEHRADUN:Uttarakhand HC dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a woman, Jyoti Nautiyal, who approached the court seeking an order to “liberate her 8-year-old daughter from custody of her in-laws”. The court observed, “Since custody of the minor girl with the father and grandparents cannot be termed unlawful, we did not find any scope for…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court has asked social media platforms to furnish their standard operating protocols (SOP) and timelines for dealing with requests for information from law-enforcement agencies. Dealing with a habeas corpus plea filed by the parents of a 19-year-old student allegedly missing since Jan, a bench of Justices Pratibha M Singh and Amit…
MUMBAI: Observing that it is tragic that a patient who is healthy cannot be discharged because the person who admitted the patient is absent, Bombay high court directed a man to remain present for the discharge of his wife from Thane Mental Hospital where he had admitted her earlier this month.“You can check in but…
AHMEDABAD: A habeas corpus petition left Gujarat high court judges perplexed. In her petition, a Surat woman sought custody of her abducted daughter as well as livestock which, she claimed, had been stolen from her.Addressing the court online in hybrid hearing mode, the petitioner’s advocate, A B Pandya, informed the court that the woman’s daughter…
