High Court Allows 13-yr-old Girl To Stay Away From Parents

In the first of its kind ruling, the Delhi High Court has allowed the plea of a 13-year-old Delhi girl to live separately because she had grown hostile towards her parents. She allegedly accused her parents of beating her up and threatening her to marry her off.

Justice BD Ahmed allowed the separation, as an interim arrangement, for girl’s “welfare” and permitted her to live with her paternal aunt and grandmother in the United States, where she has been living for the past two years.

The court cited child’s hostility as the reason. The girl had apparently ran away from her parent’s home to live with her grandmother complaining her mother threatened to marry her at this age.

She then approached the Delhi High Court after the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), formed under the newly introduced Child Protection Act, did not permit her to stay with her grandmother.

The girl had recently returned to India with her brother. She was studying in sixth grade in the US.