High court warns two brothers against mistreating old parents

The Delhi high court on Monday warned a man, who along with his brother is facing allegations of mistreating his parents.

A bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice Anu Malhotra told the brothers that the way they treated their parents, the same treatment could be meted out to them by their kids.

“History repeats itself. I am not making comments on the merit of the case, but that is the reality of life. What you will do to your parents, you will get the same back from your children,” the bench said.

“Why don’t you create your own world and allow your parents to live peacefully in their old age,” it said.

The court’s oral observation came during the hearing of a plea by one of the two brothers, challenging a single judge ruling that the parents can evict their adult children, who abuse them, from the house.

The bench has listed the appeal for consideration on September 19, the next date of hearing in the matter.

The high court bench also asked the authorities to produce before it the records of the Maintenance Tribunal which had ordered that the two brothers be evicted from the premises where they were living with their ailing parents.

The single judge had on March 15 held that as long as parents have the legal possession of the property, be it selfacquired or inherited, they can evict their abusive adult children.

The ruling had come on the appeal of the two brothers, one of them an alcoholic policeman who had challenged an October 2015 order of the Maintenance Tribunal.