Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court has admitted an appeal by an 80-year-old woman filed against her son alleging that he snatched away her plot located in Jubilee Hills of the city and stayed an order granted by a single judge in favour of her son.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice P. Naveen Rao, while admitting the appeal, said: “We do not find any justifiable reason why her son, as claimed by him, purchased the property in her name and the appellant claims it as her property. Under these circumstances, we are inclined to grant an interim stay of the order impugned in the appeal.”
M.P. Vasanthi, wife of late M.P. Damodaram, a retired government servant, moved the appeal after a single judge suspended an order passed by the RDO of Secunderabad. She submitted that her son started harassing her after she shifted to her daughter’s home by using the police, forcing her to move the High Court. The court restrained the police from interfering.
Ms Vasanthi later moved an application before the RDO under the provisions of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 to take possession of her plot. The RDO passed orders instructing her son to give possession of the property to her.
Her son then filed a writ petition before the High Court in which he contended that he purchased the property in his mother’s name with his money. A single judge suspended the RDO’s order saying that the official did not have jurisdiction to order eviction of a person in possession of a property.
