Soni Satti
The Madras High Court, ordered the payment of 25 per cent of a government school clerk’s monthly salary to his mother after he quit taking care of her. Since his father died, the government school clerk was hired on compassionate grounds. However, after he got the role, he stopped looking after his mother.
Justice S Vaidyanathan ordered that the petitioner be entitled to 25% of her son’s gross monthly income and that the authorities ensure that the said portion of the sum is deducted from his salary and paid directly to the petitioner through NEFT or RTGS per month.
The petitioner claims that her husband, a school principal, died on June 1, 1998, leaving behind his two sons, and two daughters. The woman admitted that when her son entered duty as the government school clerk in 2013, he started verbally and physically assaulting her.
On June 5, 2020, she called the local police and filed an FIR. She went to the High Court when she was upset by her son’s constant torture. Desinguraja, his son, vowed that he would look after the entire family, particularly the mother and other legal heirs, and he was given the work.
The petitioner demanded that her son, who is currently employed as a clerk at the Government Higher Secondary School in Devanur, be subjected to disciplinary action by the appropriate authorities. At the hearing, the judge also cited a recent ruling dated February 19 that claimed that those who abandon senior citizens will be sentenced to jail under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007.
The judge ordered that the note be returned to the son by June 14 for him to decide on the subject of punishment.