The Bombay High Court has held that not letting a child meet her mother amounts to ‘cruelty’ under the Indian Penal Code, and refused to quash a First Information Report registered against the in-laws of a Jalna-based woman.
A bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Rohit Joshi at Aurangabad noted in its order of December 11 that the woman’s daughter, only four years old, is being kept away from her despite a lower court’s order.
