I.D.Dua, J.

1. This judgment will dispose of three connected Letters Patent Appeals Nos. 46, 50 and 78 of 1956. The facts, out of which the present controversy has arisen, lie in a narrow compass and may be briefly stated.

2. Captain Rattan Amol Singh and Shrimati Kamaljit Kaur were married sometime in 1943, and by December 1948 four children were born from this wedlock, the first three children being daughters and the youngest one a son called "Baby Buria". In September 1949 Shrimati Kamaliit Kaur is said to have left Buria, with the youngest child, to go and live in Patiala with her parents; the three daughters remaining with the father at Buria. On the 2nd of December 1952 an application was filed by the lady in the Court of the District Judge at Ambala under Section 7 of the Guardians and Wards Act, praying that she be appointed a guardian of the. persons of the three minor daughters and declared guardian of the person of her minor son. The prayer was made substantially on the following grounds:-

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The applicant is the mother of the minors and it is in the interest of both the minors and their mother that the minor children should live with their mother, who, considerin