The Court found that the woman, despite knowing that she had a 75-year-old mother-in-law and a sister-in-law with unsound mind, refused to live in the village with them and instead asked her husband to move out.
The Court said that there was no “well formed government machinery” to streamline the workings of muafi lands or such properties that have been assigned to religious communities.
A child in need of care and protection under the JJ Act is a child who either does not have a guardian or whose guardian is incapable of taking care of the child, the Court explained.