New Delhi, July 27 - The Supreme Court Monday asked India's former Test cricket player Anil Kumble's wife Chethana to try to reach an out-of-court settlement with her former husband Kumar V. Jahgirdar on the issue of their daughter's custody.

A bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice R.M. Lodha gave this advice to Chethana Kumble and her former husband Jahgirdar while hearing her lawsuit. Chethana challenged a Bangalore family court's decision to entertain his plea for the custody of their daughter, now living with her and Kumble.

The bench asked the two to try to settle the issue of their daughter's custody through talks and gave them three weeks for the purpose.

Married earlier to Jahgirdar and also having a daughter with him, Chethana had divorced him in early 1999.

Within months of the divorce from her first husband, she married Kumble. She also moved the Bangalore Family Court December 1999 for the custody of her 6-year-old daughter left behind with her father.

Jahgirdar too moved the family court seeking custody of their daughter. The family court subsequently endorsed his plea and allowed him to take custody of the child.