The Calcutta High Court in a July 9 order held that the welfare and care of the child holds primacy over any other right of any individual claiming parentage and guardianship.
The HC’s order was on a plea by a grandfather, a 60-year-old Hooghly resident, who had claimed the custody of the newborn male child saying the child was born to his mentally challenged daughter at his home, but the Child Welfare Committee had intervened and handed the child’s custody to a social worker attached with a specialised adoption agency.
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha in his order said, “The child shall remain under the care of the persons authorised by the Child Welfare Committee.
The writ petitioner shall, however, have access to the child only to visit and see the baby. The petitioner shall not be allowed to touch the child.”
“The HC asked the Child Welfare Commission to hear out the grandfather’s petition seeking the child’s custody within a fortnight and barred the committee from putting up the newborn for adoption for a month and a half even if it decides not to grant the child’s custody to his grandfather,” said lawyer Srijib Chakraborty.
SOURCE ; https://timesofindia.
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