Rambha moves family court seeking legal custody of children

On Oct 25, she had moved a family court seeking its intervention to unite her estranged husband, who is now in Canada, with her under provisions of the Hindu Marriages Act. The court had then posted the case to December 3. She had filed the petition under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriages Act, which paves the way for restitution of conjugal rights to the aggrieved partner. 

According to Section 9, when either the husband or wife withdraws from the other without reasonable excuse, the aggrieved person may go to court for restitution of his or her conjugal rights. She submitted on Saturday that her husband was married to one Dushyanthi Selvavinayakam and it was dissolved by a decree of divorce with effect from Dec 1, 2003, which was not disclosed by her husband at the time of marriage and she knew about it only later.

It is the legal and moral duty of parents of the minor children to provide better education and medicare. But these were refused by her husband following which she filed the present plea seeking legal custody of the children. As the Presiding Officer of the family court was on leave, the matter was adjourned to Janury 21, 2017, for further hearing.