New Delhi, April 19 -- The Supreme Court has strongly criticised a Dubai court's travel ban on a child amid a parental dispute, calling the foreign court's ruling "atrocious," and a violation of human rights, akin to house arrest.

While hearing a case related to a child's custody earlier this week, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh questioned how the Dubai court had jurisdiction in the matter when the child's custody case was already pending before a family court in Bengaluru.

The court made the observations while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by one Prince Richard, a Ghana national, who resides in Dubai, seeking custody of his minor son.

The petitioner's counsel told the Supreme Court Richard's ex-wife had l...