India, Aug. 28 -- Calling court proceedings initiated by a son against his 78-year-old father "malicious", the Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed the son's application seeking examination of the father, a retired IAS officer, by a medical board constituted under section 105 of the Mental Health (MH) Act, 2017. The court ordered the son to pay Rs.5 lakh to his father for his "pernicious attempt" to drag the senior citizen into frivolous court proceedings.

Dismissing the 54-year-old son's appeal against an order of a single judge who had, in February, dismissed his petition seeking a medical examination, claiming his father suffered from mental illness, a division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata observed, "Such a conduct ...