The Bombay High Court rejected a petition filed a man for his seven-year-old son's custody to protect him from the novel Coronavirus infection as he established that his estranged wife and her family stay in a chawl and share a common bathroom. The court observed that there is no reason to disbelieve that a 'natural mother of a child' would not guard him from the pandemic, The Times of India reported.

The petition filed by the 43-year-old man was heard by the Justice Ravi Deshpande  through video conference in a pending petition filed by the mother of the boy, challenging the permission granted to him by the family court in December 2018 to visit him on weekends. The estranged couple stay in south Mumbai.