Supreme Court of India

Shazia Aman Khan and Another v. The State of Orissa and Others

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Reported as [2024] 3 S.C.R. 10

Bench C.T. Ravikumar and Rajesh Bindal JJ.

Decided 4 March 2024

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that in the present case there is no ground to upset the judgment and order of the High Court.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Custody of a minor child in parens patriae jurisdiction. Headnotes Child and Family Welfare – Custody of minor child – Custody of one of the twin daughters born to respondent No.2 and his wife is in question, who had undisputedly been living with appellant No.2 (real sister of respondent No. 2) ever since she was 3-4 month old and thereafter with the family: Held: Stability and security of the child is an essential ingredient for full development of child’s talent and personality – Welfare of the children is of paramount consideration and not personal law and statute –

Authorities it was built on

2010 Dr. Ashish Ranjan v. Dr. Anupama Tandon and Anr. cited by 11
2008 Mausami Moitra Ganguli v. Jayant Ganguli cited by 10
2019 Tejaswini Gaud and Ors. v. Shekhar Jagdish Prasad Tewari and Others cited by 7
2010 Athar Hussain v. Syed Siraj Ahmed & Ors. cited by 4
2008 Nil Ratan Kundu & Anr. v. Abhijit Kundu cited by 4
2015 Roxann Sharma v. Arunsharma cited by 2
2022 Rohith Thammana Gowda v. State of Karnataka & Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2024 Col. Ramneesh Pal Singh v. Sugandhi Aggarwal referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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