Overview

• The bench directed the Ministry of External Affairs to seek Interpol’s assistance and liaise with the Indian Embassy in Moscow to trace the missing mother and child.
• The court held the Delhi Police responsible for negligence after the mother slipped past a May 22 vigil order and threatened sanctions against the SHO and DCP.
• Police status reports detailed the escape route the mother took on forged documents from Delhi to Bihar on July 8, across Nepal to Sharjah on July 12, and onward to Russia.
• Invoking parens patriae, the Supreme Court declared the four-year-old its ward and stressed that no custody order had been granted to either parent.
• A follow-up hearing is set in ten days to review diplomatic outreach, enforcement actions and compliance with the court’s repatriation directives.