NEW DELHI: In India, courts mostly award custody of minor children to mothers while granting visitation and vocational rights to fathers in a soured marriage. A PIL in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought resolution of the difficulty faced by the parent, who has not got custody of the children, because of lockdown which has prevented physical visitation.Petitioner V Srinivas Rao requested a Bench of Justices N V Ramana, Sanjay K Kaul and B R Gavai to lay down a guidelines for many unfortunate parents who are unable to meet and interact with their children because of lockdown. The bench, which was hearing the PIL through video-conferencing in a virtual courtroom, told the petitioner that "If they have visitation rights, we suggest that electronic contact instead of physical visits can be substituted in these times."After suggesting virtual meetings through video-calls to be the norm during this abnormal times, the bench told the petitioner that it was for the estranged couples to move the concerned family court, which is dealing with their matrimonial case, to work out a mutually acceptable arrangement to permit one, who has not got custody of the children, to utilise video calls to meet and interact with his/her children.In India, the courts from trial stage to Supreme Court have always kept children's interest paramount while deciding custody battles between estranged couples and in 90% of the cases, it is the mother who gets the custody of the children.