The Madras High Court observed that couples who tie the marital knot, must remember that marriage…

The Madras High Court observed that couples who tie the marital knot, must remember that marriage is not merely for carnal pleasure but its main purpose is to procreate.

Single-judge Justice Krishnan Ramasamy said that estranged couples litigating over custody of their minor children should know that such disputes make the children, brought into "this vicious world through the act of two individuals for their pleasure," suffer.

"This Court would like to stress and impress upon the persons, who have tied the marital knot that the concept of marriage is not for mere carnal pleasure, but it is mainly for the purpose of progenating (sic) , which leads to the extension of the familial chain.

The child born out of the said wedlock is the connecting link between the two individuals, who have been united over a sacred oath, taken by both. Any act in contravention of the oath on the touchstone of law is nothing but an act with which the hands of the binder of the link is severed." Law can satisfy the ego, but it can never the satisfy the requirements of the child, as the framers of the law were only conscious of the welfare of the child and not on the mental turmoil that would be faced by a child in such a calamitous situation," Court said.