In Brief
A mother filed miscellaneous applications seeking to set aside the Supreme Court's earlier judgment that found her child lawfully in her custody. The father sought directions for the mother to return to the US with the child, or alternatively to hand over custody to him. The Court held that its prior judgment contained no direction to return to the US; it merely observed that parties must resolve custody through Indian Family Court proceedings rather than parallel proceedings in two countries. The applications were dismissed, but the Court directed the Family Court to dispose of pending custody proceedings expeditiously within six months.
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