Notice on plea for kid’s custody

Chandigarh, August 20

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion on a habeas corpus petition filed by an uncle seeking the custody of an eight-year-old child, whose mother Kulbir Kaur was arrested at the Delhi airport after being deported to India from Malaysia on August 15.

The High Court was told that the police had send detainee child to a children home in Gurdaspur without any reason. In his petition, uncle Jagseer Singh through counsel Simranjit Singh claimed that he approached to the respondents for the release and custody of detainee. His parents had also written for handing over the child’s custody to his uncle as the father was in Malaysia and mother was in police custody. 

“The petitioner has approached the authority concerned, but they are not releasing the child on one pretext or the other,” the Bench was told. Justice Inderjit Singh fixed August 27 as the next date of hearing in the matter. — TNS