India, July 27 -- The Bombay high court has restored the custody of a nine-year-old boy to his mother, observing that there was a real possibility of the father taking the child to Nepal, making it extremely difficult for the mother to regain custody despite a family court decree in her favour.

A division bench of Justices Sarang V. Kotwal and Ashish S. Chavan noted that under a consent divorce decree passed in November 2025, the parties had agreed that the child would remain in the mother's custody while the father would have visitation rights.

In her petition, the mother said that on April 26, 2026, while she was at work, the father visited her residence and deceitfully took the child away without her consent.

During the hearing on J...