JUDGMENT :

Alok Aradhe, J.

Mr. Ashok Haranahalli, learned Senior counsel for Mr. Ravi Shankar A., learned counsel for the petitioner.

Mr. M.U. Poonacha, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. The petitions are admitted for hearing. With consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the same are heard finally.

3. In these petitions under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has assailed the validity of the order dated 22.04.2019 passed by the Family Court, Bangalore by which application seeking vacation of interim order granted by the Family Court has been rejected.

4. Facts giving rise to the filing of the petitions briefly stated are that the parties got married on 19.08.2005. The respondent admittedly has one girl child from the previous marriage. From the second marriage, the girl child namely Christine Zara was born on 14.01.2014. It is the case of the petitioner that the child was taken away from school by the respondent on 03.08.2018. Thereafter, he initiated a proceeding under Section 12 of the Guardian and Wards Act, 1890 seeking interim custody of the minor girl child. Thereupon, the Family Court by an ex parte order granted interim custody to the responden