JUDGMENT :

Devan Ramachandran, J.

1. We are certifying this judgment to be reported, not for anything novel we say, but in reiteration of something so ubiquitous that it misses attention.

2. This is yet another case where parents are fighting for custody of their child.

3. The child was produced before us; and, in him, we saw a little boy whose spirit is broken, markedly tenebrous in his comportment, seemingly depressed and without even a trace of smile on his tender lips. It took us several patient hours with him, to make him feel like child he is; to make him less scared and insecure and to finally smile.

4. His smile was radiant, pure like the first rays of light upon sunrise on a aurelian horizon.

5. After he became composed a little, the child told us, in full hearing of his parents, in a sharp tone, that he hates being paraded in Court and loathes being called again.

6. We, once again, saw the cataclysmic impact Court and legal proceedings can bring upon a tender life; and think it i