CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Delhi High Court[iii] has ruled that harassed parents can evict their children from any type of property.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parents opt for legal recourses where they wish to detach themselves. So can parents disown their children in India? The answer falls in a grey area. Yes, you can evict your child from your home but there is no such concept of disowning your child in the Indian legal system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elderly parents can take back property gifted by them to their son if he fails to look after them in their old age, the Bombay High Court has ruled.

Detailed explanation-4: -[29 December, 2007.] An Act to provide for more effective provisions for the maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens guaranteed and recognised under the Constitution and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. 1. Short title, extent, application and commencement.

Detailed explanation-5: -Darshna v. Government of NCT of Delhi & Ors., has held that it is apparent from the plain language of Rule 22(3)(1)(i) that a senior citizen is also entitled to evict his son, daughter or legal heir from his property irrespective of whether it is an ancestral or self-acquired property.