JUDGMENT

Y.K. Sabharwal, J.-Leave granted in SLP (C) No. 5357/2000.

2. Two grand fathers - maternal and paternal - are fighting bitter litigation to secure the custody of their grandson, Ankur. It is second time that they are before this Court. Our efforts for amicable settlement between them have not succeeded. We, however, hope that in the interest of their grandchild at last they will resolve the controversy in near and not distant future and bring to end the litigation which commenced after respondent No. 1 lost his son and the appellant his son-in-law.

2. It May 1990, marriage was solemnised between Meera and Sanjay and out of wedlock, Ankur was born in December, 1991. On attaining three years of age, he was admitted into Maria Montessory School, Guwahati in the year 1995. Unfortunately, all of a sudden, Sanjay died in a heart attack in the year 1995. Ankur s paternal grandfather - respondent No. 1, on 27.2.1997 filed a case under Section 7 of Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, for appointing him as guardian and custodian of Ankur and an ex-parte order of injunction was also sought restraining Meera from giving Ankur in adoption to her parents or any other person. The Principal Judge