The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Boy's custody: proceedings before CWC stayed

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Tuesday, Jul 18, 2006

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Boy's custody: proceedings before CWC stayed

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Karnataka High Court on Monday stayed the proceedings relating to a nine-year-old boy, which were being heard before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC).

The biological parents of the boy had filed a case in the High Court alleging that their son had gone missing from a clinic in Malleswaram for eight years. They said that he had been traced by the city police and found living with his foster parents in Mahalakshmi Layout.

They said that they had approached the foster parents for custody of the child, but the latter said that they had raised the boy for nine years and would part with him only if the court ordered them to do so.

According to G.R. Sundari, she gave birth to a baby boy at a private nursing home in Vyalikaval. Since she developed complications after pregnancy, she started going to a clinic in Malleswaram for treatment. Ms. Sundari said that on December 4, 1997, she had gone to the clinic along with her seven-month-old baby. When she went inside the doctors' room, she was reportedly asked to leave the baby in the room outside, where a woman was sitting. Ms. Sundari said that the baby had gone missing by the time she came out.

When the matter came up on Monday, counsel for the foster parents filed an application seeking a stay on the proceedings involving the child before the CWC. A Division Bench stayed further proceedings before the CWC and adjourned further hearing on the petition.

PVR Cinemas case

The High Court has stayed the order of the District Magistrate of Bangalore directing PVR Cinemas in Koramangala to stop screening films as it has violated certain provisions of the Karnataka Cinematography Act.

In its petition, PVR Cinemas said the District Magistrate had issued a directive under Section 12 of the Act, saying that it had not complied with some provisions of the Cinematography Act.

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