NITIKA GUPTA vs SATYA DEV GUPTA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 07th August, 2025 CM(M) 1465/2025 & CM APPL. 48305-48306/2025 NITIKA GUPTA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Karunesh Tandon, Advocate. versus SATYA DEV GUPTA .....Respondent Through: None. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioner is defending a custody case filed by her parents-in-law whereby they are seeking custody of their grand-daughter. 2. The Court has seen orders which are under challenge i.e. orders dated 17.04.2025 and 15.05.2025. 3. During course of arguments, learned counsel for petitioner has restricted his request to one point. 4. He submits that, though, there was insistence from the side of petitioner (mother of the child in question) to have amended memo of parties to be placed on record and, thereafter, to further cross-examine them, learned counsel for petitioner now realizes that the situation could have been averted and petitioner herein should have rather cross examined the concerned witness i.e. PW-1/Mr. Satya Dev Gupta (respondent herein), without insisting for amended memo of parties to be first taken on record. 5. The requirement of amended memo of parties arose because