The father said that the boy's mother and her family stay in a chawl in Girgaum, where residents use the same toilet, making him prone to the virus through surface contact. "There is no sanitation. I am concerned about my son catching infection. His mother will not be able to take care of him and protect him," he argued.

The man also alleged that social distancing is not practiced in the chawl as people constantly visit each other's homes. He further requested the court that as he stays in a 1,500 sq.ft flat with a private toilet, he should be given his son's custody till the lockdown gets over.

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Hearing the man's plea, Justice Deshpande asks him how he could say that the mother of the child cannot take care of him. Noting that there was no urgency in the matter, he said, "there is no reason to disbelieve that the natural mother of the child would not take care of the child properly."

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