SC stays Paudwal daughter claim case
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 30
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed proceedings in a Thiruvananthapuram court launched by a 46-year-old woman who claimed she was the daughter of playback singer and Padma Shri awardee Anuradha Paudwal.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde asked to the woman to respond to Paudwal’s plea seeking transfer of the case from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai.
Paudwal has challenged an order issued by the district family court in Thiruvananthapuram asking her and her two children to appear before it in person on January 27.
Claiming to be the daughter of Paudwal, the woman had in her plea filed in a Thiruvananthapuram court demanded Rs 50 crore as compensation from her biological parents for allegedly denying her the childhood she was entitled to.
She wanted the court to declare her as Paudwal’s legitimate daughter and give her one-fourth share of the assets of her biological mother. She had said she attended school only up to Class X as her foster parents could not afford to bear the expenses towards her education. Karmala Modex had alleged that Paudwal had handed her over to her foster parents — Ponnachan and Agnes — in 1974 as the singer had a busy schedule and did not want to raise a child at the time.
