Overview

• Supreme Court directed the Ministry of External Affairs to liaise with the Indian Embassy in Moscow and seek Interpol’s help to locate the Russian mother and her four-year-old child.
• The bench held Delhi Police in gross contempt for failing to enforce its May 22 discreet vigil order over the mother’s movements, calling their inaction sheer negligence.
• Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi classified the use of duplicate travel documents as criminal forgery and noted the child’s original passport was deposited with the court.
• The court set a ten-day deadline for a fresh status report and warned it would issue the harshest orders, including a Red Corner Notice, if authorities fail to act.
• The child remains under the Supreme Court’s parens patriae custody pending resolution of the custody dispute between Victoria and Saikat Basu.