Lucknow: The government of Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh is planning to amend laws that will prosecute individuals who give their parents a hard time and try to evict them from the property.
As indicated by official sources, the government is planning to make changes to ‘UP Maintenance of parents and senior citizens rules 2014′ wherein the older parents’ children can be punished for evicting them from their property.
The children, in such cases, may furthermore be divested of their rights to parents’ property.
The Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has arranged an amended draft and sent it to the state government.
The maintenance rules for the parents were set up in 2014 yet there were insufficient provisions for protection for the property of senior residents from their children.
Recently, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had taken knowledge of the case of an older couple whose daughters were attempting to force their parents out of their home.
The court guided the Lucknow district magistrate to give protection to an older couple who are allegedly being harassed by their daughters for the property.
The court additionally looked for the state government’s response on the measures taken for the establishment of the tribunal and appellate tribunal under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, and the guidelines outlined under it for welfare and protection of senior residents in Uttar Pradesh.
The Allahabad High Court in its October 2017 order had given three months’ time to the state government to give notification for establishment of tribunal and appellate tribunal, assign maintenance official, establish old age homes, constitute district committee of senior residents and take fitting measures to give wide publicity in media and to sensitize people and police officers and employees of the state.
The court judgments have demonstrated that numerous senior residents are evicted from their properties by their children. These judgments were examined by the Law Commission and found that the past rules did not give full security to the older parents or senior residents.