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The SC directed the mother to go back to US, submit herself to the local court's jurisdiction and, if she so wishes, initiate proceedings seeking changes in the order asking her to share Adithya's custody with Ravi Chandran.
While the case spotlighted the emotional trauma that ugly divorces and separations inflict on children, the judgment of the Bench comprising Justices Tarun Chatterjee, R M Lodha and B S Chauhan is significant in that it rejected the mother's argument that Indian courts were not obligated to enforce orders of American courts that were inconsistent with local laws.
This judgment is pathbreaking also in the sense that it comes despite an ugly incident three years ago when a US family court had refused to accede to an order of the Supreme Court of India for production of two minors, the grandchildren of the son of former actor-politician N T Rama Rao.
