MUMBAI MIRROR (July 30, 2018)

The Delhi High Court has slapped a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a man for filing an appeal against his mother, a widow, in a property dispute, saying it was a classic case of an aged parent being harassed by their children and a copy of the storyline of the film 102 Not Out (above).

The court dismissed the appeal against a trial court order as completely frivolous, meritless and an abuse of the process of law and directed the man to pay the amount to his mother within six weeks. “The present is a classic case of aged parent/mother being harassed by her children for property... it is not unexpected any longer in this age that we live in, and which is vividly depicted in a Hindi movie 102 Not Out,” Justice Valmiki J Mehta noted.

In the suit, the lady’s daughter filed a partition suit of their Chitranjan Park property in Delhi which was supported by her. In May, the trial court decreed the suit and the son challenged it in the high court. The court said it failed to understand how a son could dispute the grant of half ownership rights in a property by the husband to his wife.