In an order passed on Oct 29, Justice Lalitha Kanneganti disposed of a petition filed by the woman’s husband, who resides in Mumbai (AI Image)
BENGALURU: Marriage, motherhood and raising children should not affect a woman’s professional career or tie her down to one place, Karnataka high court has observed in a recent judgement, clearing an ophthalmologist’s relocation to the United Kingdom.
In an order passed on Oct 29, Justice Lalitha Kanneganti disposed of a petition filed by the woman’s husband, who resides in Mumbai.
“Marriage and motherhood do not require her to remain confined to a particular place,” the judge said, specifying conditions for mutual visits: The mother shall allow regular audio and video calls between the father and the child at least for 20 minutes a day; the father shall get parenting time with the child during school holidays; twice in a year during the child’s holidays, the mother shall send the boy to India to spend 75% of the vacation with the father; the father could go to the United Kingdom to meet the child for 75% of the holidays. He had challenged the order of a Bengaluru family court that directed him to deliver the original passport of their minor child to his wife and provide consent to obtain a visa to travel to the United Kingdom. He had challenged another order rejecting his request for a change in interim custody of the minor child from the wife’s family to his family, along with other consequential relief.