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‘Abusive’ woman denied custody of stepdaughter

SOURCE- https://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20110122201101220305428243a99896e/%E2%80%98Abusive%E2%80%99-woman-denied-custody-of-stepdaughter.html

A metro court on Friday rejected the custody request of Sunita Joshi, who allegedly harassed her stepdaughter Jharna & stopped sending her to school

A 39-year-old woman who allegedly tried to pocket her late second husband’s insurance money and ill-treated her stepdaughter was denied the girl’s custody on Friday. A metropolitan court turned down Sunita Joshi’s application for getting back 14-year-old Jharna from her grandmother’s house in Ghodasar.

Magistrate D I Patel said that Jharna was living with her grandmother, Induben Joshi, by choice, he cannot grant her custody to Sunita. He refused to issue a search warrant against Induben on the basis of Sunita’s claim that the former had forcibly taken the girl.

Tensions in the Joshi family surfaced after Jharna’s father, Nilesh, was killed in a road mishap on September 8, 2006. Just three years before his demise, he had married Sunita. This was the second marriage for both of them; Sunita’s first husband had passed away and Nilesh had separated with Jharna’s biological mother.

After Nilesh’s death, Jharna and her 17-year-old brother, Deep, continued to live with their stepmother in Kanchenjunga Flats, Nava Naroda. In September last year, Jharna moved to Induben’s home in Jayant Park Society, Ghodasar, citing mental and physical harassment by Sunita. Deep, however, stayed back.

Sunita then accused Induben of forcibly taking the 14-year-old girl and keeping her in illegal confinement.

After several fights, the issue reached the court. On December 24 last year, Sunita filed an application in the metropolitan court seeking her stepdaughter’s custody and issuance of a search warrant against Induben under section 97 of the CrPC.

On Friday when the case came up before magistrate Patel, Induben’s lawyer, Mitesh Pandya, alleged that Sunita wanted to gobble up Nilesh’s insurance money, so she had sought Jharna back. Pandya said that the girl wanted to live with her grandmother.

Court lets Jharna stay with grandma

After hearing Pandya’s arguments, Patel turned down 39-year-old Sunita’s application. The magistrate said that a search warrant could be issued only if the child was held against her wish. He stated that Induben had not committed any offence and refused to grant Jharna’s custody to her stepmother.

When Mirror spoke to Jharna, she claimed that she moved to her grandmother’s house because Sunita ill-treated her.

“She stopped sending me to   school and used to often beat me. She even planned to send me away. Fed up with the harassment, I called my grandmother four months ago and shifted to her place,” she said.

Induben said that she asked Deep to move in with her, but he refused. On Friday, Jharna’s biological mother, Archana, visited Induben’s house to see the 14-year-old girl.

She wouldn’t let me go to school and used to often hit me. She even planned to send me away. Fed up with the harassment, I called my grandmother and moved to her place
– Jharna Joshi, Sunita’s stepdaughter