New Delhi, Aug. 22: The Supreme Court has re-united a minor Polish girl with her biological mother based in the UK more than three years after she was abducted, bringing the curtains down on the inter-continental kidnap and custodial battle.

A bench headed by Justice J.S. Khehar directed the authorities to make all arrangements to send the girl back to Leicestershire, where her mother Beata Agnieszka Sobieraj resides.

The bench passed the direction after the mother moved an appeal seeking the custody of the child. Himachal Pradesh High Court had earlier turned down her plea and granted her only "visitation rights".

The girl, fathered by Indian-born Amarjit Singh, was reportedly abducted from the UK by Singh after an estranged relationship with Sobieraj in 2012, and dumped in a private school in Shimla.

According to Sobieraj's lawyer, the couple were not married but into an "adulterous" relationship. The child's return was stuck pending an approval from the Indian government after Interpol Manchester informed Interpol Delhi of the abduction.

The father was earlier arrested on his return to the UK from India in 2013. He was subsequently convicted and imprisoned for three years in the UK on November 27, 2015.

Armed with the UK court orders on March 1, 2015, the mother filed a habeas corpus petition before Himachal Pradesh High Court seeking a direction to the authorities to produce her child.

However, the high court in March this year dismissed her petition on the ground that the child was not keen on joining her mother in the UK. The woman appealed in the apex court, which set aside the high court order and directed that she be sent back to her mother.