Telangana News

Irrespective of the marital status, a son will have no right to stay in the parents’ house and can reside there only at their mercy, the Delhi High Court says.

"Merely because the parents have allowed him to live in the house so long as his relations with the parents were cordial does not mean that the parents have to bear his burden throughout his life," the court further added.

The court said this, while dismissing an appeal by a man and his wife, challenging the trial court’s order, which had passed a decree in favor of his parents, who had filed a suit seeking a direction to their son and daughter-in-law to vacate the floors in their possession.

The age old parents complained that, both their sons and daughters in law, who were living with them, have made their "life hell" after which they had given complaints to the police and also issued public notices in 2007 and 2012 debarring them from their self-acquired property. 

Denying the allegations, the sons and daughters in law also claimed that they were the co-owners of the property. But as they have nothing to prove their statements, the courts gave the judgment in favor of the senior citizens, who produced the documentary evidence proving that they own the property.