Orissa High Court orders lady at hand over her toddler to father

By Express News Service
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has directed a girl at hand over her toddler boy to her husband after it was dropped at its discover by means of a video footage that the kid was subjected to cruelty, torture and assault by her.

The incident, which passed off at a village below Gop police limits in Puri district involving 15-month-old boy being kicked mercilessly for a number of minutes by his mom, had hit the nationwide headlines after a CCTV footage on it went viral on social media in September, 2020.

The division bench of Justice SK Mishra and Justice Savitri Ratho mentioned, “In this situation, we having given our anxious thought to the matter in question have come to the conclusion that continuance of the custody of the toddler Rajesh alias Rudra Nayak with the mother Rojalin Nayak would be detrimental to his mental and physical development and may also affect his psychology negatively”.

Chakradhar Nayak, who’s engaged in retail enterprise whereas staying in his sister’s home in Bhubaneswar, had filed a petition in search of his son’s custody.

The video that had gone viral in social media was additionally proven to the court docket when the petition was taken up by means of video convention on January 12.

The court docket directed Gop IIC to safe attendance of Rojalin together with the kid by means of digital mode on Friday.

When the court docket interacted with Rojalin, she clearly acknowledged that since she is the mom of the kid, she has proper to assault him and in any scenario is not going to hand him over to her husband.

The bench ordered, “We direct Rojalin Nayak to hand over the child Rajesh to Chakradhar within a period of seven days. In case of her failure to do so, the IIC shall take appropriate steps and take the child from the physical custody of Rojalin and hand over the child to Chakradhar”.