MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Friday was told that the chartered accountant and a childhood friend of the granddaughter of ‘
Frontier Gandhi
’
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
have supported her nephew’s plea to take her to Pakistan.
A bench of justices K K Tated and
Prithviraj Chavan heard a petition filed last year by Mashal Khan (40) to appoint him legal guardian of his aunt,
Zarin Ghani Walsh
(76), so that he can take her with him to Pakistan to be with her family. And to authorise him to deal with her properties.
On August 4, chartered accountant Dinshaw Sanjana and Monica Ghosh were directed to be joined as parties after the judges were told that Walsh has given them power of attorney and they also hold accounts jointly with her in Union Bank of India.
Mashal’s advocate
Mayur Khandeparkar
said Sanjana and her friend Ghosh have been impleaded as parties and they have also filed affidavits in support of the petition. “Both have said she is in a feeble state of health. They have no objection if she would desire to stay with the petitioner. Monica Ghosh has been her close friend since childhood ,’’ he added.
A resident of
Breach Candy
, India-born Walsh is a Canadian national and has resided in India since 1983. She is the daughter of Ghaffar Khan’seldest son. Mashal (40) is the son of her late brother. The judges adjourned the hearing to next week.
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Read MoreRosy Sequeira is special correspondent at The TImes of India, Mumbai\nsince July 2011. She has covered Bombay High Court for over nine years\nwhich includes her earlier stints with other newspapers. Her forte is\non-the-spot accurate reporting. She tries to bring a human face to the otherwise largely\ndrab court proceedings and constantly looks out for judicial observations \nthat strike a chord with the common man.\n
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