Couple Ordered to Pay Maintenance to Aged Parents
The Senior Citizens Maintenance/ Pension Tribunal ordered a daughter to pay monthly maintenance to their elderly parents.
An elderly woman, who is a resident of Bhiwandi in Thane, had filed a petition in the Senior Citizens Maintenance/ Pension Tribunal. The petition was against her daughter and son-in-law. In her plea, she said her husband was mentally unstable and she had been working as a domestic help to sustain their livelihood. The elderly woman had bought a house in 2016 for Rs. 5.30 lakh. But, her daughter, allegedly, taking advantage of the fact that her mother was illiterate, allegedly got the house transferred in her name by forging documents. The daughter and her husband later allegedly threatened the old parents and also tried to throw them out of the house. The tribunal, in keeping with directions of theSupreme Court and the law, ordered that the daughter and her husband must pay Rs 3,000 as maintenance to her elderly parents. Regarding the matter of the house, the senior citizens' maintenance/pension tribunal said that the elderly women will have to file a case in normal court. The tribunal has ordered daughter and son-in-law not to evict the parents from the house till the matter is decided by a civil court.
