Mujhe mera beta wapas de do [give me my son back]," said the woman, whose child was placed in foster care with a well-known Bollywood director while she was being treated for mental illness. A good Samaritan heard her cries for help, and offered to help her financially to raise her son for the next three years.

Indira Jaising, former additional solicitor general, also told mid-day that the woman has an absolute non-negotiable right to custody of her child. The woman, in her thirties, was at the Child Welfare Committee's (CWC) office at Dongri to record her statement before the Borivli railway police on Monday. It was the Borivli railway police who had spotted the mother feeding her child on September 16, 2019, and got her admitted at Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation — a home for the mentally-ill. There, she was treated by Dr Bharat Vatwani, a psychiatrist and winner of Ramon Magsaysay.