Chandigarh, Sept. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the decision of a maintenance tribunal in Jalandhar that ordered the annulment of a property transfer to a son failing to maintain his parents.

The annulment was allowed even as transfer deed did not contain the condition that the son would maintain them post transfer of the property, a condition under Section 23(1) of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007.

In October 2022, a divisional magistrate in Jalandhar passed the initial annulment order based on the father's complaint, which the deputy commissioner subsequently upheld. It was against this order the son had approached high court in 2023.

The property - a factory shed - was transfe...