IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 16.02.2026 Manju Devi and another ….Petitioners Versus Maintenance Tribunal (Senior Citizen) Sub Division, Rohtak, and others ….Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KULDEEP TIWARI Present: Mr. N.K. Malhotra, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Bhupender Singh, Addl. A.G., Haryana.

Mr. D.K. Tuteja, Advocate, for respondents No.3 and 4.

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KULDEEP TIWARI, J. (Oral)

1) The petitioners/daughters-in-law, by way of instant writ petition, as cast under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, assails the order dated 30.11.2022 (Annexure P-5), vide which, the appeal preferred by respondents No.3 and 4 (senior citizens) against the order dated 22.02.2022 (Annexure P-3), has been allowed by the learned Appellate Tribunal, thereby directing the petitioners to vacate the house in question.

2) Briefly put, respondents No.3 and 4, filed an application under Sections 22 and 23 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (for short, ‘the Act of 2007’), primarily, on the ground that, post demise of their sons, their daughters-in-law/petitioners, who happen to be real sisters, have been trying, toot