The Bombay High Court has held that not letting a child meet its mother amounts to "cruelty" under the Indian Penal Code, and refused to quash a first information report registered against the in-laws of a Jalna-based petitioner.

According to news agency PTI, a bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Rohit Joshi at Aurangabad noted in its order released on Wednesday that the woman's four-year-old daughter is being kept away from her despite a lower court's order.