MUMBAI: Bombay high court Judge, Justice Bharati Dangre on Saturday inaugurated a lactation room at Bandra family court.
The first such room at any family court premises is to aid young or lactating mothers to have privacy and bright space with their infants said the family court principal judge and Justice Bharati Dangre who inaugurated it said it was "a most needed basic necessity for women visiting with children."
Swati Chauhan, the principal judge of the family court who conceived the idea and ensured its execution said: "I do not have exact figures, but there are many woman who come to court with infants in arms."
There are litigants and those accompanying litigants who sometimes need space away from benches outside the court rooms or lift lobbies to breast feed infants in privacy and Judge Chauhan felt there was a need to find and make such space available.
Luckily there was a small space on the seventh floor of the court building at Bandra Kurla Complex. "It was refurbished with infant friendly needs and motifs," said Judge Chauhan on Saturday.
The room could also be a space for young women caught in a messy child custody cross fire or a divorce dual, to be a refuge if carrying infants to court or to express milk if the infant is back home on her date in court.
