Supreme Court of India

Ruchi Majoo v. Sanjeev Majoo

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Reported as [2011] 7 S.C.R. 674

Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and T.S. Thakur JJ.

Decided 13 May 2011

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From the headnote

Guardian and Wards Act, 1890: s.9 - Jurisdiction of the court to entertain claim for grant of custody of a minor - Held: . Any challenge to the jurisdiction of the court as regards the custody of the minor has to be seen in the context of th&"'; averments made in the pleadings of the parties and the requirement of s. 9 - Bare reading of s. 9 shows that the solitary test for determining the jurisdiction of the court uls. 9 of the Act is the 'ordinary residence' of the minor- The expression used is "where the minor ordinarily resides"...;. Whether the minor is ordinarily residing at a given

Authorities it was built on

2006 Kuldip Nayar v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 30
1986 Mrs. Elizabeth Dinshaw v. Arvand M. Dinshaw and Anr. cited by 19
1984 Smt. Surindar Kaur Sandhu v. Harbax Singh Sandhu & Anr. cited by 13
2009 V. Ravi Chandran v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 11
1997 Dhanwanti Joshi v. Madhav Unde cited by 10
2000 Sarita Sharma v. Sushil Sharma cited by 9
2010 Mrs. Shilpa Aggarwal v. Mr. Aviral Mittal & Anr. cited by 8
2007 Besant Theosophical College v. N. Ananthaiah and Ors cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2015 Surya Vadanan v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. relied on
2021 Aman Lohia v. Kiran Lohia referred to
2019 Tejaswini Gaud and Ors. v. Shekhar Jagdish Prasad Tewari and Others referred to
2017 Prateek Gupta v. Shilpy Gupta & Ors. referred to
2017 Nithya Anand Raghavan v. State of Nct of Delhi & Anr. referred to
2013 Arathi Sandi v. Bandi Jagadrakshaka Rao and Ors. distinguished

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 4 referred to

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