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are becoming barriers...

In the path of their future...

This case is trying to take away a child

from the rightful love of his parents...

This case is against progression...

The most regressive appeal

I've ever heard your honour!

Now we all know that there are people in Kolkata...

who buy their own house in Shantiniketan... right?

Now they appoint a caretaker to look after the place...

But the owners visit every weekend...

they pay the electric bills... tax... now...

After 7 years... if these owners

decide that they shall sell off the house...

and shift somewhere else...

then what will happen?...

Then the caretaker will oppose that...

he'll say that to sell off the house

his permission has to be taken...

Why?... because he now claims

to be the owner of the house..

because he has looked after

the house for these 7 years...

This case should be stopped immediately...

Because this is a combative father's

insensitivity towards his own son...

Objection your honour...

Nivedita ma'am...

a caretaker gets a salary

to look after the house...

But in blood relation... where

you are nurturing your next generation...

Monetary transactions have not taken place...

Objection your honour... monetary

transactions have happened...

My client, has regularly given money

to Mr Dinen Lahiri's wife, Gouri Lahiri...

For looking after Arka...

Monetary transactions happen among

blood relatives...

For your kind information,

I'd like to inform you...

that money has been all saved

in the bank in Arka's name...

My client hasn't even touched it...

This is similar to that historic comment...

that the money kept on

the table as bribe...

remains untouched...

claims the bribe taker!

This case rests today...

For me, this case is extremely important...

And very sensitive in the social context...

5th is the next date for

the second hearing of this case...

The court is adjourned for the day...

Seize this car...

Don't listen to anything!

Hello...

Nothing much happened today...

They just presented the case today...

Nothing happened?

5th is the next date...

Hey, I have to hang up

call you later...

So Mr. Arnab...

Brick falls off the neighbour's wall...

sue the neighbours...

Crow drops garbage in your compound...

the neighbours get sued for that...

Maid forgets to pay the bill...

CESC gets sued for that...

Your father has that north Calcuttan

trait to sue everybody...

You'll have tea right?...

Not me...

You?..

Nemai... give me two teas please...

So?...

Next day will be cross-examination...

He'll be able to bear it right?...

Will Father be insulted?...

If a father can sue a son...

he has to face the consequences...

Without my knowledge...

You took money from your son...

For that I was...

...insulted in the court today...

How many times I warned

you against taking it...

Your honour, today I shall call upon

the main witness of this case... Mr Dinen Lahiri...

Usually...

...a person retires at 60...

Why did you retire at 63?...

Possibly they liked my work...

And the department couldn't find

a proper replacement immediately...

Your son and wife are alive?

Yes... I have two sons...

One is alive...

the other has passed away...

Were these sons raised by you?...

Yes here... in Shantiniketan...

How do you spend

your days after retirement?...

If you could share your daily routine with us...

Daily routine means...

waking up in the morning...

After freshening up...

I wake my grandson up...

Then I take him to school...

The school is nearby...

I walk him to school...

From there, I may go to

the market... or bank...

I finish all that...

Then I bring my grandson back from school...

I usually study in the afternoon...

Read the newspaper...

Once my grandson's afternoon

siesta gets done...

I take him to the playground...

After getting back from there...

we usually practice music...

Then we sit to study for a while...

Oh dear!...

It's all about your grandson...

So you spend almost ten to eleven

hours after your grandson...

Tell me, after retirement...

have you ever been on

a trip with your wife ?

Not really...

Once along with my wife,

my grandson...

and a group of my friends...

Had gone to Varanasi once...

So how did you become responsible

for your grandson?...

He is my...

second child, Arnab's son...

When he was born...

seven years ago... here in Shantiniketan...

At that point, his father and my

daughter-in-law... were not exactly settled...

That is when we unanimously

decided... that Posto...

By Posto, I mean, my grandson...

will live with us...

That is why he lives with us...

And my son and daughter-in-law

had agreed to this at that time.

Didn't you feel annoyed? Irritated?

It was supposed to be your retired life...

I'll not deny that I did

get irritated in the beginning...

I even used to get annoyed at times...

Waking up at midnight...

looking after the baby...

Staying up at night time and again...

Probably then I...

But later...

gradually I started liking it...

Slowly I started enjoying it...

Before retiring I'd always be a little anxious...

About how will my retirement days be like...

Will it be a cursed existence?

But when my grandson came along...

I felt like...

God has heard my prayers.

So he has sent him along...

I found a new meaning to my life...

And your grandson's parents?...

They stay in Kolkata...

come during weekends...

they even take my grandson along at times...

I don't blame them...

They are genuinely very busy...

So then you are not Arka's biological father...

then why are you claiming his guardianship?...

See...

Arka is regularly getting

class ranks in his school...

He is a very bright and brilliant student...

He is a very good singer...

Taking him away from this environment of

Shantiniketan forcefully would be like...

Uprooting a tree from its roots...

It would be like that I feel...

My son is also going to start a new business...

Till the time I am sure of

my grandson's future...

Till then I... rather us...

me and my wife...

We are not going to let our grandson go...

Milord... this was Dinen Lahiri's

statement regarding the case...

This is a regular incident...

In India, mostly all grandparents

are playing this role...

Why only in India?...

In USA...there are 7.5 million children who

much like Dinen Lahiri's grandson...

Are being brought up by grandparents...

Please check the No.33

page of my petition...

Milord the numbers are even greater in China...

Most schools in India, nowadays,

celebrate Grandparents' Day...

Because 80% children

Either get co-parenting or

full-parenting from their grandparents

Therefore my client, Dinen Lahiris

case is not an absurd story

This is the reality

Thus, I would request the honourable court

That keeping my clients experience as a teacher

His experience of bringing up his two children

And also his role in

Arkas life since his birth till date

To consider all of this

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