1. This judgement shall dispose of two appeals being FAO No. 1322 of 2003 and FAO No. 1323 of 2003.

2. Both the aforesaid appeals have been filed by the same appellants against the same respondent Ravi Raj Dudeja.

3. The trial Judge had also decided the two petitions filed by the present appellants and that filed by the present respondent by clubbing them together.

4. The controversy in the present appeals is with regard to the custody and appointment of a guardian of a minor, named Sahil Dudeja, who was born on November 15, 1989 and as such at present is about 16-½ years of age.

5. The facts leading to the controversy show that Ravi Raj Dudeja (father of the minor) was married with Smt. Raman daughter of Ram Nath Anand and Upkar Pushpa Anand (maternal grand parents of the minor - present appellants) on October 19, 1988. A male child Sahil alias Gaurav was born on November 15, 1989 at Faridabad. Ravi Raj Dudeja as well as Smt. Raman were both posted as Lecturers in two different colleges at Yamuna Nagar.Smt. Raman died on September 20, 1993, under some suspicious circumstances. An FIR was lodged against Ravi Raj Dudeja on September 21, 1993. He was accused of causing death