The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it will hear next week the dispute between Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and her former partner Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai, over the custody of Henry, a Rottweiler.

Justice Jasmeet Singh today asked Dehadrai's lawyer, Senior Advocate Percival Billimoria if he was agreeable to letting Moitra have visitation rights to the pet who is presently in the custody of Dehadrai.

Billimoria informed Court that such arrangement was not possible.

"There is a very good reason, in the interest of the dog. There was an attempt to threaten me," he said.

The Court then said that it will hear each side for five minutes each and decide on the visitation of the pet next week.

Moitra and Dehadrai both have filed separate petitions regarding custody of Henry. Moitra filed the lawsuit against Dehadrai in the district court seeking specific performance of an oral agreement between them for shared custody of the dog.

Before the High Court, she has challenged the trial court order refusing to pass an interim order in her favour on shared custody of Henry. Moitra had sought Henry's custody for 10 days every month as an interim measure.

Dehadrai, on the other hand, challenged the district court's decision to dismiss his plea seeking rejection of Moitra's suit in November last year.

Moitra, before the High Court, has said that in the interim order, the district court failed to consider that Henry was given to her as her pet and he usually resided with her at her residence.

It stated that she has developed deep emotions equivalent to being a parent and the district court's order deprived her of the love and affection of a pet she raised for two years.

"The appellant was a co-parent of Henry. Henry primarily resided at the appellant's residence from where he was admittedly taken by the respondent when he was trespassing," it further alleged.

Title: Mohua Moitra v. Jai Anant Dehadrai and other connected matter