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Court orders man to vacate mother’s house, pay damages
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has directed a man to vacate his mother’s house after his 65-year-old widowed mother filed a harassment complaint against him.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has directed a man to vacate his mother’s house after his 65-year-old widowed mother filed a harassment complaint against him.
The court while passing the verdict termed the litigation as ‘unfortunate’.
Observing that the man was being “ungrateful and selfish”, the court said: “One of the saddest things in the world is to see a child wearing his mother down, being ungrateful and selfish, having no accountability of his actions and continuing through life thinking nothing is his fault”.
The woman had lodged a complaint in 2012 alleging that her son and his wife was forcibly living on the second floor of her residential property and had threatened her when she had asked them to help her financially by at least paying rent for the accommodation.
The old lady had accused them of harassing and misbehaving with her.
Additional district judge Savita Rao said: “This is such an unfortunate litigation filed for recovery of possession, damages, mesne profit (profits accruing during the rightful owner’s exclusion from his property) and permanent injunction filed by a mother against her son.”
The court also directed the man to pay Rs10,000 per month as damages to his mother.
“This turns out to be a case of ungrateful son who in terms of contention of plaintiff (mother), not only harassed his mother but also as an afterthought against his mother’s wish intended to continue to forcibly occupy the premises owned by his mother,” the court remarked.
A legal notice was served on the son to vacate the premises, the complaint said. But the son denied in court about having received any such notice.
The court relied on the complainant’s statement and documents on record and said: “By virtue of legal notice, defendant was called upon to hand over the possession of the subject premises to plaintiff, in which he failed.”
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