India, Nov. 4 -- In a peculiar custody dispute, a 37-year-old mother is fighting her two brothers-in-law in court for the guardianship of her three minor children. The Bombay High Court has recently granted her relief by transferring the case from the Thane district court to the district court in Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur.

The woman, a homemaker, lost her husband to illness in 2023. She has since been living with her three-year-old son at her parents' home in Kolhapur. Her brothers-in-law, however, have filed a petition under section 7 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, in the Thane District Court seeking to be declared the legal guardians of all three children.

In her plea, the mother alleged that her brothers-in-law, whom she described ...