India, May 11 -- The Bombay High Court has ruled that under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, all transfers made by elderly parents to their children are implicitly conditional and subject to the beneficiary providing them with basic amenities.

A single judge bench of justice Sanjay S Deshmukh on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by a 46-year-old Sangli resident, challenging an order passed by the senior citizen appellate tribunal in Sangli in September 2025, which cancelled the relinquishment made by his 67-year-old mother in his favour.

After his father's death in June 2007, two sisters of the man relinquished their rights in their father's ancestral and self-earned properties in Sangli and its t...