The Bombay High Court Monday expressed its dissatisfaction with the approach taken by the Union government in dealing with a Russian woman's plea challenging the exit permit issued to her after she divorced her Indian husband. The woman, who has remarried an Indian man and has a six-month-old daughter with him, claimed in her plea that she should not be separated from her child due to her nationality.

The division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale emphasized that a woman who is nursing an infant should not be separated based on her nationality. The court criticized the government's lack of a humane approach, stating that the idea of considering all citizens suspect is not acceptable.