India, May 3 -- A two-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside a single-judge ruling that a father has the right to transfer de facto custody of a minor child to any person.

Allowing the appeal filed by the mother of a child, a bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra said, "The observations that the father has the right to transfer defacto custody of a minor child to any person is against all cannons of law and morality and the same therefore required to be set aside."

The appeal was filed against a single-judge order in a Habeas Corpus petition, which dismissed the plea filed by the mother who sought custody of her two children.

In the Habeas Corpus petition, the mother alleged that her...