Bhubaneswar, Oct. 31 -- The Orissa High Court has granted visitation rights to a man and his parents to meet his one-and-a-half-year old son, currently under the maternal care and custody of his estranged wife.

Earlier the Cuttack family court had rejected his plea to meet the child.

The petitioner who moved the high court is entangled in multiple cases including dowry torture, domestic violence and divorce petition filed by his estranged wife.

The high court allowed the writ petition and granted visitation rights to the husband along with his parents to meet his minor son twice a month in the high court mediation centre in the presence of a female mediator between 11.00 A.M to 1.00 pm.

It also ordered that the petitioner along with his...