India News: CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that a woman’s extramarital affair is not grounds to assume that she would be a bad mother and .
A woman's extra-marital affair is not a ground to deny the custody of her child in a matrimonial dispute as it cannot be concluded that she will not be a good mother, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has held.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court noted that in a patriarchal society, it is fairly common to cast aspersions on the moral character of a woman and more often than not these allegations are made without any basis.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that an extramarital relationship of a mother by itself is no ground to deny her the custody of her child in case of marital dispute.