India, March 8 -- In the second order of its kind on the same day, the Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the decision of a tribunal to evict a man who had dispossessed his elderly mother from her redeveloped flat in Lower Parel west.

A single judge bench of Justice N J Jamadar held that barging into his mother's flat and forcibly removing her from her property was in breach of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, which requires a child or a relative to provide a dignified life to the elderly.

The same judge on Thursday granted relief to another 71-year-old woman, upholding a tribunal's order instructing her son and daughter-in-law to vacate her Mulund flat. The woman, who was forced to move into a ger...