Child abduction case: order in anticipatory bail plea on Nov. 2
The HinduThe District and Sessions Court, Thiruvananthapuram, will pass its orders in the anticipatory bail plea filed by the mother and sister of the young woman who complained that her parents had kidnapped her son and gave in adoption by falsely obtaining her consent on November 2. The father of the girl, arraigned as the first accused, has not filed any anticipatory bail plea. Opposing the bail plea, A.A. Hakkim, public prosecutor, contended that the custodial interrogation of the accused was necessary to trace the original birth certificate of the baby and other documents, ‘forged by the accused.’ The investigation was in its preliminary stage. Defence lawyer Murukkumpuzha R. Vijayakumaran Nair contended that the charges of kidnapping levelled against the accused would not stand as the girl had submitted a statement in the family court, Thiruvananthapuram, that the baby was handed over to her parents for temporary care.