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RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY ......Mansi Choksi & Anahita Mukherji I TNN
Parents cannot be evicted from a house without due process of the law if they have been staying there from before. There are three enactments that can be applied.
a) Under Section 125 of the CrPC, a magistrate can order a child to maintain his old parents under the Maintenance of Parents Act.
b) The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act says an aged parent can demand maintenance from children in the same way a woman can demand it from her husband.
c) The Domestic Violence Act, too, provides parents with the right to seek relief from any kind of abuse.
A national policy on elderly people was announced in January 1999, identifying a number of areas of intervention—financial security, healthcare and nutrition, shelter, education, welfare, protection of life and property—for the well-being of the elderly in the country. A National Council for Older Persons (NCOP) was constituted by the ministry of social justice and empowerment to operationalise the National Policy on Older Persons.
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