Supreme Court of India

Sheetal Vasant Thakur v. Chirag Arora

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Bench Sanjay Karol and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh JJ.
Decided 11 June 2026

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that psychological assessment of both the parents would be beneficial.

Judgment, page 53

In brief

The parties married in 2015 and moved to the USA, where a daughter was born in 2016. The appellant-mother alleges that the respondent-father physically abused her and sexually abused the child, and she returned to India with the child in December 2019 following a domestic assault; FIRs under Sections 376 etc. IPC and Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the POCSO Act were later registered against the father, in which he has since obtained anticipatory bail.…

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