1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 253 OF 2011 IN FAMILY COURT APPEAL NO.30 OF 2011 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders Court's or Judge's orders. Mr. Sasi Nair, for the applicant. Ms.Seema Singh, for the respondent. CORAM: D.B.BHOSALE AND K.K.TATED, JJ. DATE : 25/11/2011 PC: Heard learned counsel for the parties. By this application, the applicant- husband is seeking access to the child Hafeeza. Appeal is directed against the judgment and decree passed by the Family Court, whereby custody of the child is directed to be handed over to the applicant. The Appeal has already been admitted and we have also granted stay to the impugned judgment. T 2 The applicant, in the present application, has made limited prayer which reads thus : “Pending the hearing and final disposal of present appeal, the appellant may be ordered and directed to provide interim access of the child to him on every first and third Saturday between 3 pm to 5 pm at Children Complex, 3rd Floor, Family Court, Bandra.” Having considered the nature of the prayer and so also the judgment and decree of the Family Court and for the reasons stated in the application, we are inclined to grant excess to the applicant. Hence, we pass the following order: (a) The respondent-wife or any other family member on her behalf, to take child-Hafeeza to Children's Complex, 3rd floor, Family Court, Bandra, on every first and third Saturday of every month between 3 pm and 4 pm, pending the hearing and final disposal of the Appeal where the applicant is allowed to meet the child. He is not allowed to take the child out of the Children's Complex. The Principal Judge of the Family Court to depute some responsible officer of 3 the court to remain present during the access period. With these observations, the civil application is disposed of. It is open to the respondent-wife/mother to file application for seeking maintenance to the child. Liberty to apply for modification, if circumstances so demand. (K.K.TATED,J.) (D.B.BHOSALE, J.) 4