Supreme Court of India

Lahari Sakhamuri v. Sobhan Kodali

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Bench A. M. Khanwilkar and Ajay Rastogi JJ.

Decided 15 March 2019

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From the headnote

Family Law: Child custody – Petition for divorce and for custody of minor children (US citizens) filed by wife/mother in US – Order by US Court directing the husband/father to appear for conciliation and not to change the residence of children – In the meantime, due to family urgency wife/mother when came to India, filed petition in the Family Court seeking custody of the children – Family Court passed ex parte interim injunction order restraining the husband/father from taking away minor children – Emergency petition by husband/ father before US Court – US Court passed order for continuing…

Authorities it was built on

1986 Mrs. Elizabeth Dinshaw v. Arvand M. Dinshaw and Anr. cited by 20
1984 Smt. Surindar Kaur Sandhu v. Harbax Singh Sandhu & Anr. cited by 14
2009 V. Ravi Chandran v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 11
1997 Dhanwanti Joshi v. Madhav Unde cited by 11
2017 Nithya Anand Raghavan v. State of Nct of Delhi & Anr. cited by 9
2015 Surya Vadanan v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. cited by 5

Where later benches applied it

2025 Komal Krishan Arora & Ors. v. Sandeep Kumar & Ors. referred to
2024 Col. Ramneesh Pal Singh v. Sugandhi Aggarwal referred to
2022 Rajeswari Chandrasekar Ganesh v. The State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. referred to
2021 Aman Lohia v. Kiran Lohia referred to
2020 Smriti Madan Kansagra v. Perry Kansagra mentioned
2020 Yashita Sahu v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. mentioned
2019 Tejaswini Gaud and Ors. v. Shekhar Jagdish Prasad Tewari and Others mentioned

Of those, 4 referred to · 3 mentioned

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