Vinod K. Sharma, J. - The defendant-appellant has come up in appeal against the judgments and decrees passed by the learned Courts below in a suit for declaration filed by the plaintiff-respondents claiming maintenance from the appellant-defendant being daughter-in-law and grand children of the defendant with a prayer to create a charge on the property of the defendant-appellant. The plaintiffs further sought a decree for permanent injunction restraining the defendant, his servants or agents from ousting the plaintiffs from House No. 226, Jujhar Nagar, Patiala illegally and by force and also sought restraint against alienation of the suit property.

2. The suit was filed by Smt. Satinder Kaur, widow of Gurmail Singh son of Nachhattar Singh along with Sugandeep Kaur, minor daughter of plaintiff No. 1 and grand-daughter of appellant and Gursimrandeep Singh, minor son of the plaintiff and grand-son of the defendant-appellant claiming maintenance on the plea that there was nobody to maintain the plaintiffs after the death of Shri Gurmail Singh, except the defendant. It was claimed that as the plaintiffs have no source of income, the defendant-appellant was duty bound to maintai