A Jain man filed an application in the family court in Surat on Tuesday requesting it to stop the initiation into ‘monkhood’ of his seven-year-old daughter who stays with his estranged wife.

Samir Shah, who is a share market trader, also requested the court to grant custody of both his children, the daughter and a five-year-old son, to him saying that he “wanted to educate them to secure their future”.

Shah, a resident of Adajan, was married in 2012. Due to “frequent quarrels” between the couple, Shah’s wife left her in-laws’ place along with her two children and began staying with her parents at Nanpura in Surat .

Shah, in an application filed in the family court of Judge S V Mansuri, said that he learnt of the diksha (initiation) ceremony to be held in February 2026 from a WhatsA

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