CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has stated that under no circumstances should minor children be treated by parents as commodities. Their feelings and preferences must be given priority.

Due to differences of opinion, a husband filed for divorce before the Chennai Family Court. While the case was still pending, both the husband and the wife filed petitions before the High Court seeking custody of their 11-year-old twin boys.

A single judge who had heard the case interacted with the children and ordered that they should stay with their mother from Monday to Friday and with their father on Saturday and Sunday.

The husband had challenged this order by filing an appeal, which was heard by a bench of Justices SM Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq.

The judges summoned the two children and inter

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