Bangalore: French diplomat Pascal Mazurier, who is on bail in a sexual abuse case, has petitioned the family court here to allow his mother Jacqueline Maille visiting rights to meet his three children staying with his estranged Indian wife Suja Jones.
“We have petitioned the city family court July 12 for visiting rights to Mazurier’s mother to meet his three children — two sons and a daughter — as he is not allowed by their mother to meet them,” Mazurier’s counsel P B Appaiah told IANS here.
The family court has posted the case for hearing July 19. Jones also filed an application in the family court seeking suspension of Mazurier’s parental authority on their children, sons aged eight and two years and a daughter aged four years.
As an accused in such a criminal case is not permitted by law to meet his kin, the 62-year-old Maille came to Bangalore from France in March on a six-month visa to meet her grandchildren.
“We hope the court will consider our petition favourably as Maille is very keen to meet her grand kids, as Mazurier is worried about their welfare since he had not been allowed to meet them over a year,” Appaiah said.
Mazurier, 40, was arrested June 19, 2012 after police registered a case against him June 15 on a complaint by Jones accusing him of abusing their four-year-old daughter and alleging domestic violence against her. IANS
