- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31280 WP No. 16271 of 2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 13TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE LALITHA KANNEGANTI WRIT PETITION NO. 16271 OF 2024 (GM-FC) BETWEEN: SRI. SURYAS RAVI PRAKASH RAO S/O SURYAS SHIVASHANKAR RAO AGED ABOUT 44 YEARS R/A NO. 3/673, SOMANATH NAGAR ANANTHAUPR -515 004 ANDRA PRADESH …PETITIONER (BY SRI. BALAKRISHNA K., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. SRI MOHITHE MANOHAR RAO S/O LATE MOHITHE VITTAL RAO AGED ABOUT 73 YEARS 2. SMT. MOHITHE KATHURU BAI W/O MANOHARA RAO AGED ABOUT 64 YEARS 3. SRI. MOHITHE KALYAN KUMAR S/O MANOHARA RAO AGED ABOUT 42 YEARS ALL ARE R/AT NO. 104, SRI KARTHIK PARADISE 1ST FLOOR, 3RD CROSS LEFT ALPHA GARNENS KODIGEHALLI, K.R.PURAM BENGALURU -560 036 …RESPONDENTS (BY SMT.T.R.RAJESHWARI, ADVOCATE) Digitally signed by MEGHA MOHAN Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31280 WP No. 16271 of 2024 THIS W.P. IS FILED UNDER ARTICLE 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, PRAYING TO SET ASIDE THE IMPUGNED ORDER ON I.A.NO. 10 PASSED BY THE III ADDL. JUDGE, FAMILY COURT IN G AND WC NO. 101/2018 DATED: 23.04.2024 VIDE ANNEXURE-A TO ALLOW THE APPLICATION FILED BY THE PETITIONER TO PERMIT VISITATION OF WARD. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING IN ‘B’ GROUP, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE LALITHA KANNEGANTI ORAL ORDER The present writ petition is filed questioning the order passed in I.A.No.10 in G&WC.No.101/2018 dated 23.04.2024 by the III Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Bengaluru, whereby the Family Court had dismissed the application filed by the petitioner/father. 2. An order passed by the Hon'ble Apex Court is placed before this Court dated 30.04.2025 wherein the Hon'ble Apex Court had passed an order permitting the father to come to Bengaluru, Karnataka to exercise visitation rights in order to meet his child on every Sunday. The first four meetings shall take place on every Sunday at Bengaluru Family Court premises, under the supervision of a mediator without the - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31280 WP No. 16271 of 2024 presence of either the grandparents or anyone representing the grandparents and the Family Court shall see to it and decide whether further sessions, after the first four need to be carried out in the same manner or a change is required. By 04.00 p.m., after the meetings the child will be handed over to his grandparents. The concerned Registrar (Judicial) was directed to communicate the order to the concerned Family Court at Bengaluru for onward compliance. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that they have assailed the order passed by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh arising out of judgment and order dated 10.04.2025 in CMA.No.247/2023 and the same was carried to the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the Hon'ble Supreme Court has passed this order dated 30.04.2025. As the Hon'ble Supreme Court has already granted the visitation, nothing survives for consideration in this petition. Hence, this Court is passing the following order: ORDER i. Accordingly, in the light of the order passed in Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.12294/2025, the writ petition is disposed of. - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31280 WP No. 16271 of 2024 ii. All I.As. in this petition shall stand closed. SD/- (LALITHA KANNEGANTI) JUDGE MEG List No.: 2 Sl No.: 4