RADHAKRISHNAN, J. :- This Court is witnessing burgeoning of a child custody litigation in the recent past. Mother highlights the paternal deficiencies and the father vice-versa and when they get custody, each tries to denigrate the other parent. The children often get influenced by the indoctrinations of the parent in custody as against the vilified parent. In child custody cases, the result is most often a pyrrhic victory in which both sides lose, even though one may ostensibly the winner. Victory for whom?. It is often at the cost and life of the children. The parents are often unconcerned with the trauma and the psychological impact on the children.1-A. Petition for Habeas Corpus is also being filed seeking custody of the children. O.P. No. 20099 of 2001 is filed for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus by the mother of the children and for a direction to secure liberty of her children, Ananthu and Abhimanyu from the father and grandfather and restore their custody to her.

2. Habeas Corpus petition was filed placing reliance on the compromise decree passed by this Court in M.F.A. No. 744 of 1998 on 19-3-2001 on a joint petition filed by the father and mother by which cus