A city court has come to the aid of an aged man, who was being harassed by his son for wishing to give a share of property to his daughters too, and asked the son to vacate the father’s house.
“Life is not a ladder but a wheel which takes a full circle,” Additional District Judge Kamini Lau said in her judgement, adding that the judiciary would step in to stop “inappropriate and illegal conduct” of children against aged parents and that too when the parents needed them the most.
The judge held that 73-year-old Ganga Saran Tripathi was the owner of a property in North Delhi’s Burari and had absolute right to deal with it the way he wanted. His son Arvind Tripathi and daughter-in-law Bindu Tripathi were “only permissive users or licensees” in respect of the property and due to their misbehaviour and misconduct with their father, their licence to stay in it had been “validly terminated” as the old man had disowned them, she said.
“Hence, I hold that plaintiff Ganga Saran Tripathi is entitled to the relief of possession and permanent injunction in respect of the suit property...,” the judge said.
“It is said that wheels of justice grind slow, but exceedingly finely. In case of any misbehaviour by the children to elderly parents, the courts of law would certainly and effectively step in for redress to stop this inappropriate and illegal conduct,” the judge said.
The court granted three months to the son and his wife to vacate the property and hand it over to their father, and directed them not to sell or transfer it to anyone.
Ganga had moved the court alleging that he was being abused, rebuked and humiliated by his son and daughter-in-law for his refusal to transfer his property in their names. — PTI
“The judiciary will step in to stop ‘inappropriate and illegal conduct’ of children against aged parents and that too when the parents need them the most”
