India, May 29 -- Mumbai Observing that a son had "left no stone unturned" in harassing his elderly mother "in her twilight years", the Bombay High Court recently dismissed an appeal filed by him against an order of the senior citizens welfare tribunal in favour of his 67-year-old mother. The court also imposed "exemplary costs" of Rs.50,000 on the man "to discourage such challenges against welfare orders".

The mother and son were at odds over land in Sangli left behind by the man's father who died in 2007. The Kolhapur bench of the court slammed the 46-year-old son for "depleting her meagre resources through persistent litigation in her twilight years".

A single judge bench of Justice Sachin Deshmukh observed that the record demonstrate...