India: Of runaway wives & harassed husbands

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'"Since India has not signed the Hague Convention, courts here have not really been enforcing judgments of foreign courts," said senior advocate Pinky Anand, who represented complainant V. Ravi Chandran, on whose petition the Supreme Court ordered the CBI to trace his son and former wife in India.
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"India has been used as a haven or a refuge where you could defeat the law. Moreover, dowry laws are peculiar to the Indian legal system," said Anand. "Hopefully, this judgement would pave the way for foreign judgements to be enforced in India."

The Canadian High Commission told HT that its "consular officers at the department of foreign affairs and international trade and in India were currently managing 23 child custody, child abduction and child welfare cases".'