Overview

• The order by Justice B. M. Shyam Prasad permits the Union government to issue necessary documents for the mother and two daughters to leave India.
• Russian authorities granted emergency travel documents valid from September 25 to October 9 after receiving a DNA report for five-year-old Ama, who was born in India.
• The court disposed of a petition by Israeli national Dror Shlomo Goldstein, who sought to restrain the Centre from sending the minors out of India.
• The bench said the children's best interests guided its view, noting the mother’s request to return and that authorities had rehabilitated the family after finding them living in a Gokarna cave.
• The Centre told the court the move is not a deportation of an overstayer but recognition of the mother’s wish to go back to her country with her children.