Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday said, “Though a child can grow physically, his/her mental development cannot happen in a broken family. And a family cannot run by filing case.”
The HC bench of Justice J B M Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam passed this comment during hearing a case filed to get the guardianship of an 8 years old baby-girl by his father.
The father and the mother of the girl are divorced.
Sources said, the parents of the girl married in 2008. They are the inhabitants of Naogaon district. The child’s father Md Sazzadur Rahman sent a divorce letter to his wife Touhida Akter on December 18 last year. The child was with her mother at that time and she continued. At this circumstance, the father filed a writ petition with the High Court saying that the child was detained illegally.
After hearing on May 30, the HC issued a rule and ordered the law enforcers and the mother of the child to present the child in the court on June 27.
Police of Naogaon Sadar Police Station presented the child in the court on the date fixed. On that day, the court passed order after hearing. The court said, “The child will stay with her mother for four weeks till next hearing and her father will be allowed to meet her and keep her with him at least one day in a week.”
The court fixed July 24 for further hearing on the writ petition and asked the parents of the child to appear in the court on that day. Following the court order, the parents of the child appeared in the HC with their child yesterday.
Advocate A S M Shahriar Kabir took part in the hearing on behalf of the child’s father, while Advocate Amit Das Gupta stood for the child’s mother from the panel lawyers of the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee which is giving legal assistance to the mother.
Advocate Amit Das Gupta said, the child’s father met with the child for two times as per previous order of the court and the father was agreed to give Tk 5 thousand per month for the livelihood of the child.
The court fixed August 5 for further hearing on the matter and asked the parents of the child to develop understanding between them. Till then the child will be under her mother’s care.
Sources said, mother of the child filed two cases against her divorced partner.
