New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday scolded a son who skipped because he tried any possibility of rejection against Payment of Rs 10,000 monthly maintenance to his father who was 72 years old and said it was a moral duty and legal obligation of a son to provide rezyenance to their parents at old age.
A 72-year-old East Delhi Mason has eight children, two sons and six daughters, and lives in a square courtyard house in Krishna Nagar with the oldest son’s family.
The house has been partitioned between family members.
Thanks to married daughters who inherited their part at home to the Father, Mason had a place in a small residence unit.
However, when it comes to sustenance, sons do not help the Father who now find it difficult to make a living from stone work, which is beyond his physical abilities.
The Mason, in 2015, moved the family court under section 125 of the criminal procedure code that was looking for maintenance from its contractor – son of real estate dealers.
The court was initially given Rs 6,000 per month as maintenance and asked the son to pay arrears 1,68,000, increased since 2015.
He only paid Rs 50,000.
The court of trial increases maintenance to rs 10,000 per month with directions to pay arrears at the new level.
But his son continued to file a petition in various forums, from the District Court through the Delhi High Court to the Supreme Court, to stop payments.
The broad reasons are compiled before the court – Daddy is rich enough to defend himself; The child did not produce enough to give Rs 10,000; And, finally his son told SC on Tuesday that the court court thought his wife’s wealth was his.
The son’s advice was argued before the Cji N V Ramana bench and Judge A S Bopanna and Hya Kohli that would be legally wrong to ask the son to pay maintenance to the Father of the income of the daughter-in-law.
But, the bench looked profusely and registered an order.
“This is a moral duty and the legal obligation of a son to defend his old parents.
Your father is 72 years old and you drag him from court to court on the maintenance of Rs 10,000.
What has happened to you? No one has to drag parents to court.
There are parents who have to see such days in their lives.
We have to take care of them, “said the CJI-LED bench.