MUMBAI: Observing that a mother's role in the development of a child's personality can never be doubted, a sessions court, while adjudicating in a custody case between a Pune-based father and a city-based woman, said, "A child gets the best protection through the mother. It is a most natural thing for any child to grow up in the company of one's mother. The company of the mother is the most natural thing for a child."
The court further pointed out that the children's grandmother was taking care of them and even she cannot be a substitute for a "natural mother".
