Kin schemed against woman, says HC, grants her custody of daughter

THE Madras High Court has ordered custody of a minor child back to her mother and quashed the criminal proceedings moved against her.

- R SIVAKUMAR

The police had booked her for abetting sexual harassment of the child by her husband, based on a complaint lodged by the woman's sister and mother who had wanted to take the child away from her.

The orders were passed by a division bench of justices MS Ramesh and Sunder Mohan recently while allowing the habeas corpus petition (HCP) by the five-and-a-halfyear-old child's mother, who is employed in a bank in Chennai.

After getting the job in Chennai, the woman left her child with her mother in Mannargudi in 2023. Her mother and an elder sister, a divorcee with no children, brought the child to Chennai on November 30, 2023, and met up at a hotel.