Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of the Human Rights Protection Foundation, said on Monday that the foundation had received 380 complaints from across the State, of cases where children had cheated their aging parents of their property or thrown them out of their own houses.
Such cases are counted as offences under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. Dr. Shanbhag said as the foundation was handling such cases for the last couple of years, it had received 380 complaints from senior citizens. But the Department of Women and Child Welfare had received only 103 complaints on this issue. “The problem of ill-treatment of senior citizens by their children is on the rise. This, despite the Act being in force for the last eight years,” he said.
