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P&#038;H HC answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Punjab and Haryana High Court: <\/strong>Arun Monga, J., held that the Maintenance Tribunal has no jurisdiction under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act, 2007 if a person is aged below 58 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instant petition was for issuance of a writ of certiorari to set aside the impugned order passed by respondent 1 whereby application filed by respondent 2 under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act, 2007 was allowed and petitioner was directed to vacate the property of respondent 2 within 30 days of the order passed.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Decision<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Respondent 2 on her own volition stated her age to be less than 58 years as on the date of instituting proceedings before the Maintenance Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court held that, Tribunal could not have invoked the jurisdiction of the Maintenance Tribunal under the Act, as respondent 2 was less than 58 years not a senior citizen on the relevant date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, the impugned order dated 1-6-2021 passed by respondent 1 was quashed for lack of jurisdiction, hence writ petition was allowed. 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Additional District Magistrate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/nAVI087e\"><b>2022 SCC OnLine P&amp;H 1089<\/b><\/a>, decided on 16-5-2022]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Advocates before the Court:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Manav Bajaj, Advocate, For the petitioner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Pankaj Middha, Additional Advocate General, Haryana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Sahil Goel, Advocate, For respondent 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab and Haryana High Court: Arun Monga, J., held that the Maintenance Tribunal has no jurisdiction under the Maintenance and Welfare of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":267061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2554,29785,42834,42768,49468,38947,2551],"class_list":["post-267053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Jurisdiction","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-legal-updates","tag-maintenance-and-welfare-of-parents-and-senior-citizen-act","tag-maintenance-tribunal","tag-Punjab_and_Haryana_High_Court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If a person is aged below 58 years, Can Maintenance Tribunal invoke jurisdiction under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act? 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