KARACHI, June 17: Another woman approached the Sindh High Court on Thursday to recover custody of her suckling child from her husband. Fouzia Andaleeb submitted through Advocate Mehmood Rizvi that she married Irfan Ahmad, a fellow employee at a city college, in 2003.
Immediately after their marriage, Irfan started making demands. She was made to pay Rs70,000 for the ornaments gifted to her by him. She also had to pay her monthly salary to her father-in-law.
She waited for their first child's birth for things to improve. She was admitted to hospital and a baby boy was born after a caesarean operation on April 11. The boy, named Sumair, was hardly six days old when he was forcibly taken away by Irfan. She requested the court to have Sumair's custody restored to her as she alone could feed him.
Justice Ataur Rahman, who heard the petition, asked the respondent husband, who had come in response to a court notice, about the whereabouts of the child. He submitted that he needed time to engage a counsel.
As for the child, there was no mention of it in the notice, he said. The court directed the respondent to bring the child to the court on June 21 when the petition would be heard again.
DAMAGES SUIT: The Sindh High Court asked a foreign airline on Thursday to answer allegations made in a 50-million-rupee damages suit instituted by a businessman against cancellation of his and his wife's tickets by it.
Plaintiff Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh submitted through Advocates Bashir Ahmed Shaikh and Mahfoozyar Khan that he intended to visit the United States in connection with his software business in the last week of February.
He purchased two return tickets for himself and wife on cash payment for the Karachi-Zurich-Chicago-Zurich-Karachi sector from an international airline of repute. The airline, however, informed him before the flight that the tickets bought by him had been blacklisted and cancelled. No reason was assigned for the adverse and arbitrary action.
The plaintiff submitted that the airline was legally obliged to fly him and his wife to their destination after issuing the tickets. It was duty-bound under the Hague Protocol of 1955 and the Carriage by Air (International Convention) Act, 1966, to honour its obligations to the ticket-holders.
The plaintiff said he incurred a financial loss on account of the illegal and unjustified cancellation of the tickets and also suffered loss of goodwill and reputation from the resulting postponement of his business trip.
He claimed that he was entitled to damages amounting to Rs5 million and requested the court to decree the sum in his favour.
SHIP RESTRAINED: The Sindh High Court on Thursday restrained a foreign flag vessel, MV Athina, from leaving Karachi port in a lawsuit filed by an importer for the release of his 29,024 ton steam coal cargo, adds PPI. Awan Trading, an import firm of coal, moved the SHC against the foreign flag oil tanker, recently anchored at the outer anchorage of Karachi port.
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