A court in Mumbai has said that a seven-year-old child should not be denied the "warmth of the natural guardian" while granting bail to a woman arrested for kidnapping a minor girl in 2013.

The accused is the mother of a seven-year-old girl, who has been staying at a children’s home in Andheri since her mother’s arrest, reported PTI.

The case dates back to 2013, when the accused woman and her husband allegedly kidnapped a child, who was aged seven at the time. The child remained missing for nine years before being traced, leading to the couple’s arrest in 2022.