{"id":47903,"date":"2017-04-21T03:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=47903"},"modified":"2017-04-21T03:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:40:31","slug":"custody-young-girls-cant-given-claimant-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/custody-young-girls-cant-given-claimant-delhi-hc","title":{"rendered":"Custody of young girls can&#8217;t be given to any claimant: Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46468\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"46468\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/dishonest-recording-proceedings-injustice-hc\/delhi-hc-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?fit=759%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"759,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"delhi-hc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-46468 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Custody of young girls can't be given to any claimant: Delhi HC\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/delhi-hc.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Custody of young girls can&#8217;t be given to any claimant: Delhi HC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Delhi High Court today refused custody of a girl to a man who claimed to be her husband by showing a photograph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not going to release her to you. If courts start releasing young girls&#8217; custody to claimants on the basis of photographs, then we have had it. All kinds of false documents could be created,&#8221; a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Deepa Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s observation came during the hearing of a habeas corpus plea by a man seeking custody of his wife who is 17-and-a-half years old and currently living at Nirmal Chhaya, a home for young girls and women.<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, allowed the man to meet the girl there if she wanted to meet him, while dismissing his plea for custody of the girl who is pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The court also directed the authorities to ensure proper education and nutrition for the girl as she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was dismissed after advocate Tushar Sannu, appearing for the Delhi Police, said that investigations have revealed that the girl&#8217;s date of birth was August 15, 1999 and therefore, she was a minor and cannot be sent back to the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his plea has claimed that his wife was 19 years old as her date of birth is August 15, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>He also told the court that the girl has refused to go back to her parents who had lodged a kidnapping complaint against the man after they got married on January 3 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court today refused custody of a girl to a man who claimed to be her husband by showing a photograph. &#8220;We are not going to release her to you. If courts start releasing young girls&#8217; custody to claimants on the basis of photographs, then we have had it. 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