Faruk Kabir is permitted by HC to meet his newborn daughter
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has let producer and director Faruk Kabir to see their newborn daughter on alternate days, some 1.5 months after it was rumored that his wife had gone to Amritsar with the kid.
The ruling was made on February 5 in response to a habeas corpus petition submitted by Kabir, the director of “Khuda Haafiz,” who was asking for custody of his 2.5-month-old daughter. The bench, which included justices AS Gadkari and Shyam C. Chandak, made this decision.
On November 29, 2023, Kabir and Shok Sanam, a citizen of Uzbekistan, welcomed a daughter into the world. Whereas Shok was eager on Uzbek citizenship, he was keen on Indian citizenship for the kid. Kabir said that Shok ran away with their daughter to her father’s house in Amritsar on December 21, 2023. He believed Shok and her parents might enter Uzbekistan via Pakistan by crossing the Wagah border; they were allegedly unable to go by air since the Maharashtra police had issued a watch alert against them.
Kabir reported ₹7 lakh worth of stolen items to the Versova police station in a FIR. Shok was brought back to Mumbai by the Versova police on December 31, when she and her mother were taken into custody. The following day, they were let free on bond.
Shok and her parents are accused of attempting to falsify paperwork when she was out on bond in order to use the “Emergency Travel” route to fly to Uzbekistan. They were charged with this at the Azad Maidan police station in a different case after a special branch II employee filed a complaint.
