Manpreet Kaur, 29, has spent nearly the whole year longing to be with her one-and-a-half-year-old son Guruashish Singh
Manpreet Kaur, 29, has spent nearly the whole year longing to be with her one-and-a-half-year-old son Guruashish Singh. However, the Bombay High Court, on Friday, issued a search alert for her husband Nanaksingh Biji, 31, who allegedly absconded with their child.
Justice SB Mhase and justice RV More came down heavily on the police officers from Ambad in Nashik for their inability to execute a search warrant issued on January 22 by a magistrate in Nashik. The court then asked for the photographs of Biji and the child to be sent to the police headquarters of every state in the country and from there to every police station.
Filji Frederick, Manpreet’s advocate, told the court that the Regional Passport Office should also be alerted. Accepting his request, the court directed the country’s check-posts at the borders of Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh to be alerted to identify Biji and the child, if spotted. The court asked the police to display pictures of the two on all Doordarshan television channels.
Separated from her son Guruashish on January 16, Manpreet had filed a habeas corpus petition in March this year seeking her child’s custody.
Manpreet and Biji had an arranged marriage on February 19, 2006, after which they lived in Nashik. Their son was born on January 9, 2007. “My husband tried to push me down the stairs and harassed me. After that I had to be hospitalised in January,” Manpreet told DNA.
She alleged that while she was recuperating in the hospital, her father-in-law Avinashsingh snatched the child from her mother and then Biji disappeared with him. Manpreet believes that Biji, who has a road-construction business, and his family are in Nashik. “If he has stepped out of Maharashtra then he may have gone to Punjab,” she said. The court has extended the execution time of the warrant by six weeks.
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