Srinagar, Sept. 14, KDC: The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh had to step in and draw up an exact, hour-by-hour timetable to resolve a dispute between separated parents over celebrating their minor son’s birthday.
The court intervened to ensure that the child could celebrate his birthday with both his mother and his father, while also allowing visiting paternal grandparents to spend time with the boy.
Following a direct interaction with both parents in court, a single bench of Justice Rahul Bharti at Jammu wing took it upon itself to divide the child’s time over two days, setting specific hours for home visits and fixing an exact 60-minute window for the father to attend his son’s birthday party at a local amusement park.
Under the court-mandated schedule, the mother was directed to drop the child at the father’s residence in Gandhi Nagar on the afternoon before the birthday by 3:30 PM, where the boy stayed with his father and grandparents until the mother picked him up at 8:30 PM.
For the birthday itself, the court split the day into tightly regulated slots. The mother was directed to drop the boy at the father’s place at 11:00 AM, where he stayed until 2:00 PM.
The child was then returned to the mother for his evening birthday celebrations, organized between 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM at an entertainment park in Jammu.
For the party, the court specifically carved out a single-hour entry for the father, directing that he was entitled to join his son’s celebrations strictly from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM during the final hour of the booked event.
Directing both parents to strictly adhere to the timetable without letting personal differences spoil the occasion, the court said, “The aforesaid arrangement has been announced to both the parties to come in compliance with the same without any scope for its breach subject to some exceptional/emergent reasons that too relatable to their minor son.”
In an additional direction aimed at protecting the child from the hostile environment of court battles, the bench ordered that for the next scheduled hearing later this month, the parents must bring the boy inside the court complex not through the regular public gate, but exclusively through the Judges’ entry.
The court directed the Registry to facilitate the special entry, observing that this step was necessary to keep the young child away from the exposure of crowded court corridors and the courtroom atmosphere. (KDC)
Sad for the child who has to shuttle just becoz parents drew a line,why produce children when ur ego and arrogance is the bottom line.