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A household tribunal successful Gujarat's Surat metropolis connected Monday (December 22, 2025) stayed 'diksha' (religious initiation) of a seven-year-old Jain miss aft her begetter filed a plea claiming his estranged woman had gone against his wishes and decided that the kid should clasp monkhood.
Family tribunal justice SV Mansuri granted a enactment connected her 'diksha', which was scheduled connected February 8, 2026, successful Mumbai.
"The tribunal granted our plea for an interim enactment connected the girl's 'diksha' and kept further proceeding connected January 2. It has asked the parent to record an affidavit stating that the kid volition not instrumentality portion successful the ceremony," petitioner's lawyer Samapti Mehta said.
The tribunal was informed that the pistillate had near her husband's location astir a twelvemonth agone pursuing a quality connected this issue, and took her girl and lad to unrecorded with her parents.
On December 10, the girl's begetter had approached the household tribunal seeking her custody, claiming his estranged woman had decided against his wishes that the kid should instrumentality 'diksha' to go a monk.
In the plea, filed nether the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, the petitioner sought to beryllium appointed arsenic the girl's ineligible guardian to support her interests.
Judge Mansuri had issued a announcement to the petitioner's wife, seeking a reply by December 22.
The petitioner stated that helium joined the responsive successful 2012, and they person 2 children. The mates person been surviving separately since 2024.
He had discussed the contented of their girl embracing monkhood with his woman and agreed that the miss should go a monk aft attaining maturity, the petition said.
The petitioner stated that his wife, however, had insisted that the kid instrumentality 'diksha' astatine a wide ceremonial successful Mumbai successful February 2026.
In April 2024, his woman near location with their 2 children and started surviving with her parents, saying she would instrumentality lone if helium agreed to their daughter's 'diksha', the petition alleged.
She aboriginal insisted connected going up with the ceremonial contempt his disapproval, it said.
The petitioner pointed retired that his girl was conscionable 7 years aged and couldn't marque specified a determination connected her own.
He further claimed that his woman would instrumentality their girl to spiritual gatherings, and erstwhile near her unsocial with a 'guru' astatine his Ahmedabad ashram without his consent.
The petitioner besides alleged that his woman had erstwhile near the kid astatine the ashram of different Jain monk successful Mumbai, and that helium was not permitted to conscionable her there.
