Supreme Court on Child Custody: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that their welfare is “paramount” in the legal battle between the couple living separately over the custody of the children. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sandeep Mehta said, “In cases of children’s custody, the welfare of the child should be considered as paramount. The excessive honesty, love and affection shown by any one of the parents cannot be the basis for determining the protection of the child in itself. ”

The Supreme Court made this comment in the judgment in which the order of 11 December 2014 of the Kerala High Court has been rejected. The High Court had given the interim protection of two children to the father for 15 days every month, but the Supreme Court described this system as “unmatched” and “harmful” for the welfare of children.

Couple married in 2014

This decision came on the appeal of the mother of the children, who challenged the interim custody order of the High Court in favor of the separate husband. Children’s mother is a software engineer, while father is a general manager in a construction company in Singapore. The couple married in 2014 and have two children. His daughter was born in 2016, while the son was born in 2022.

The couple were living separately since 2017 after a rift among themselves, although their second child was born in 2021 after a brief reconciliation. The father of the children knocked on the door of a family court in Thiruvananthapuram in June 2024 and requested to provide permanent custody of the children under the Conservator and Advice Act. The family court gave the father a limited meeting rights, including monthly personal meeting and weekly video calls.

The High Court gave the father a 15 -day custody every month

The High Court amended the custody system and allowed the father to have a 15 -day custody every month, provided that he should keep a flat on rent in Thiruvananthapuram and make arrangements for transport for children.

The High Court also provided video call facility to parents, when the child will be in the protection of another. However, dismissing the order, Supreme Court Judge Justice Mehta wrote a verdict for the bench, saying, “The interim system is neither viable nor favorable for mental and physical welfare of children.”

The Supreme Court said a big thing

The Supreme Court said that this system failed to consider the need for children’s development requirements, especially nutrition and emotional security. The court said, “However, at the same time we cannot ignore the fact that the defendant is a affectionate father who has shown his deep desire to play the role of equally and guardian in the upbringing of his children.” In this way, it is neither acceptable nor justified to completely deprive him of the care of children and it can destroy all the possibilities of family engagement. ”

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Prasanna sankar: Tech Entrepreneur Prasanna Shankar of Chennai has made serious allegations against his wife. In many posts on the social media platform ‘X’, he claimed that his wife has an affair with someone else. He also said that his wife is now asking for a large amount for divorce and is harassing him with the help of Chennai police.

Prasanna Shankar is the founder of Singapore based Crypto Social Network 0xppl.com. He is living separately from his wife Divya. He told that when he came to know about his wife’s illicit relationship, the opposite wife imposed a case of harassment on him. Shankar said, ‘I was accused of domestic violence. False police complaint was lodged. He applied for divorce in America instead of India.

Prasanna said that his wife kept his nine -year -old son hidden in the US. For this reason, he also filed a case of kidnapping against his wife. He said that an American court ruled in his favor and both had to sign an agreement. Under this, both of them got the joint custody of the son, but they had to pay about Rs 9 crore and Rs 4.3 lakh per month to their wife.

‘Chennai police is harassing’
Shankar claimed that his wife later refused to follow the agreement and insisted on keeping the child with him. When Shankar again moved the court in this case, the matter worsened. Prasanna said that wife Divya lodged a complaint against her in Chennai about the kidnapping of the son. After this, the police officers reached his hotel late at night. However, he had already left with the son.

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‘Son is happy, police is still harassing’
Shankar says that he later told the police the whole matter and said that his son is completely safe and happy. Despite this, the authorities continued the search for his family and friends. He also accused the Chennai police of raiding his friend Gokul’s house in Bengaluru without warrant and detaining him in Chennai.

‘Called on excuses and snatched the son’: Divya
Wife Divya’s claims are completely opposite to Shankar. He dismissed Shankar’s allegations, saying that three weeks ago Shankar called him to India on the pretext of resolving the issue of property sharing and snatched the son from him. Divya said, ‘I don’t know what happened to my son, and that’s why I lodged a complaint with the police.’ Divya claimed that Shankar had stolen her son’s passport. He said that the Chennai police is trying to help him in getting his son back.

Accused of tax evasion also
Divya also accused Shankar of transferring her matrimonial property in her father’s name to avoid tax. He also said that Shankar’s father also transferred these properties to his brother in Thailand to save tax.

‘Women make secret recording’
Divya also accused Shankar of sexual harassment of women. He claimed that he secretly recording women. He also alleged that the Singapore police had also arrested Shankar once in the sexual harassment case. Divya also claimed that Prasanna was arrested while prostitution in a sting operation, due to which he was also removed from the company.