The Bombay High Court has come down heavily on a man who sought to restrain his elderly parents from using his Mumbai home during their medical visits, calling it a disturbing reflection of eroding family values.

Justice Jitendra Jain, in an order passed on Thursday, declined to grant any relief to the petitioner who had challenged a 2018 civil court order refusing to bar his parents from entering his Goregaon residence.

The judge described the case as a “sorry state of affairs,” observing that a son choosing to drag his ailing parents to court instead of caring for them revealed a deep moral decline.

Justice Jain said society had “forgotten Shravan Kumar,” recalling the character from the Ramayan known for his unwavering devotion to his parents. The court remarked that in the present a

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