{"id":18237,"date":"2015-04-10T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2015-04-10T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:48:43","slug":"83-year-old-woman-gets-her-house-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=18237","title":{"rendered":"83-year-old woman gets her house back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stella D\u2019Souza was cheated by her relative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF), said on Tuesday that the foundation had helped one more senior citizen get back her house that was fraudulently taken from her by a relative in Mangaluru.<\/p>\n

Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Shanbhag said that Stella D\u2019Souza (83), who was a spinster and retired teacher, had a house at Vamanjur in Mangaluru.<\/p>\n

Ms. D\u2019Souza had not adopted any children. Her relative, a woman, used to visit her house under the pretext of enquiring about her welfare. During these visits, she used to persuade Ms. D\u2019Souza to keep the land documents safe, preferably in the Sub-Registrar\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Trusting her relative, Ms. D\u2019Souza agreed to her suggestion. Her relative took Ms. D\u2019Souza to the Sub Registrar\u2019s Office in Mangaluru on August 30, 2011, where the latter signed some papers, which she believed was for safe-keeping the land records. But Ms. D\u2019Souza signed a sale deed selling the house to the relative for Rs. 3.31 lakh. \u201cThe motive appeared to be to grab the property after Ms. D\u2019Souza\u2019s death,\u201d Mr. Shanbhag said.<\/p>\n

A year later, Ms. D\u2019Souza came to know that she had been tricked by her relative and she filed a case in the JMFC court in Mangaluru in 2013. Then she approached the HRPF here.<\/p>\n

The HRPF took her case under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 to the court of the Sub Divisional Magistrate of Mangaluru.<\/p>\n

The Sub Divisional Magistrate (Assistant Commissioner) ordered cancellation of the sale deed on March 9, 2015 and Ms. D\u2019Souza got back her house, Mr. Shanbhag said.<\/p>\n

Relook at the Act<\/b><\/p>\n

He said that as per the Act, a case should be disposed in 90 days. But in this case, it took six months as Assistant Commissioner was busy. Besides, the Assistant Commissioner gave every opportunity to the relative to explain her position.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be better if the government amended the Act and made a provision for interim order by the Sub Divisional Magistrate. There is no provision for an interim order in the Act,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Not many people knew about the Act. The government should create awareness about the Act among the public and also officials, Mr. Shanbhag said.<\/p>\n

Ms. D\u2019Souza, who was present at the press meet, said that she had been tense for the last four years. \u201cNow I am delighted at getting back my house,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Shanbhag said that the HRPF had received 392 cases of fraud performed on senior citizens either by their children or relatives from different parts of the State. Of these, 12 cases had been disposed and 45 cases had been settled out of court, he said.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> National> Karnataka \/ by Ganesh Prabhu \/ Udupi – April 10th, 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF), said on Tuesday that the foundation had helped one more senior citizen get back her house that was fraudulently taken from her by a relative in Mangaluru. Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Shanbhag said that Stella D\u2019Souza (83), who was a spinster and retired teacher, had … Continue reading 83-year-old woman gets her house back<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-positive-news-and-features"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions\/18238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}