"Was Beaten, Locked In Bathroom By My Mother": Son To Supreme Court

The son, now 27-years-old, told the court that his mother used to beat him and lock him inside a bathroom when he was just seven years old.

"I was beaten up. I was locked in the bathroom for hours. I don't want to speak to my mother," a young man told the Supreme Court on Monday while recollecting his "traumatic childhood" even as his estranged parents are locked in a divorce battle for two decades.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant, which tried to persuade the man to talk to his mother, also spoke to him and his parents in the chambers for over 45 minutes.

The Supreme Court was hearing a matrimonial dispute, with the husband seeking a divorce and the wife opposing it.

When the counsel, representing the wife, told the bench that she be allowed to talk to her son, who stays with his father, Justice Chandrachud asked the man to talk to her.