S.K. Mishra, J. —In this appeal, the appellants assail the order dated 18th May, 2010 passed by learned District Judge, Khurda at Bhubaneswar in Guardian Petition No.208/2008 declaring that the respondent-mother is entitled to have the custody of her son. The facts leading to filling of this appeal may be stated as follows:

The respondent filed a petition before the learned District Judge, Khurda, inter alia, pleading that she and appellant No.1 got married on 6.12.2000, which was duly registered. The couple led a happy conjugal life in the house of the appellants for some days. The respondent thereafter stayed at her place of posting in Chennai for about more than a year and appellant No.1 went to U.S.A. to his place of posting. Later they came to Bangalore, where they spent happy days together. They stayed in Bangalore for seven years.

2. During this period dissensions grew up between the parties. Appellant No.1 demanded a sum of Rs.10,00,000 from the respondent and when she was not able to comply with the same, she was ill-treated and tortured physically and mentally. It is further pleaded that initially the respondent was getting more salary than appellant No.1. She wa