1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.2446 OF 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, office : Court’s or Judge’s orders Memoranda of Coram, : appearances, Court’s : orders or directions : and Registrar’s orders : ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ms.Anjali Patil, Adv. for the petitioners. Mr.V.B.Konde-Deshmukh, APP, for the State. CORAM : CORAM : CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. DATED : DATED : DATED : 15th December, 2008. P.C.:- . Heard the learned Advocate for the petitioners and the learned APP for the State. 2. Petitioner No.1 is the mother of petitioner No.2. Petitioner No.1 is seeking custody of petitioner No.2. Petitioner No.2 is at present in the custody of Child Welfare Committee. 3. It is the prosecution case that, petitioner No.2 came to be rescued in a raid conducted on 13.9.2008. She was produced before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 54th Court, Mazgaon, Mumbai. The learned Magistrate directed that petitioner 2 No.2 be produced before the Child Welfare Committee. Accordingly she was so produced. Thereafter an application was preferred before the Child Welfare Committee for custody of petitioner No.2. 4. The learned Advocate for the petitioners states that the grievance of the petitioners is that though 21 days have passed, the application has not yet been decided. Looking to these facts, I am inclined to pass the following order : (i)The Child Welfare Committee to dispose of the said application for custody of petitioner No.2 within 10 days of receipt of order; (ii) Criminal Writ Petition is disposed of accordingly. [SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.] [SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.] [SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.]