Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui Approaches Bombay High Court Seeking Whereabouts Of His Children Who Are In Estranged Wife's Custody
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Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has approached the Bombay High Court in a Habeas corpus petition seeking the whereabouts of his children who are in his estranged wife Aaliya's custody.After a brief hearing the division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik asked Siddiqui and his wife's counsels to arrive at a consensus regarding visitation rights for Siddiqui. He expressed the desire to speak to...
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Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has approached the Bombay High Court in a Habeas corpus petition seeking the whereabouts of his children who are in his estranged wife Aaliya's custody.
After a brief hearing the division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik asked Siddiqui and his wife's counsels to arrive at a consensus regarding visitation rights for Siddiqui. He expressed the desire to speak to his children.
"We suggest you have a discussion and come to an agreement about the visitation rights," the court said.
During the hearing, Advocate Pradeep Thorat representing Siddiqui said, his wife and children are citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"The children are enrolled in a school in Dubai. She came to India last year and now the children are also here. They have been absent from school," he said.
"Is there a matrimonial dispute?," the bench asked to which Thorat said the couple was separated in 2011 and there is a 'Khulanama'.
Aaliya's lawyer Advocate Rizwan Siddiquee accepted their children were in her custody. "I am the biological mother. The daughter is very clear she will not leave her mother and study in a foreign school."
In response to the Bench's query about the children leaving school midway, Aaliya's lawyer said they could join classes online or be enrolled in a Mumbai school. "If the school doesn't allow, they will enroll in a school in India."
He added that he was disputing the Khulanama.
"His concern is only regarding studies and the children's whereabouts. You respond on the point of studies," the bench told the Aaliya's lawyer.
On the submission that Siddiqui should be allowed to speak to the children, Aaliya's lawyer said that they weren't restricting access.
We suggest you have a discussion and come to an agreement about the visitation rights, the bench said and adjourned the matter to next week.