Dehradun: In a shocking incident, a retired senior BHEL officer in Haridwar and his wife have sued their Guwahati-based pilot son and Noida-based working daughter-in-law on grounds of "mental harassment" after they "failed to give them a grandchild, even after six years of marriage".
The elderly couple demanded a grandchild within a year or Rs 5 crore, which they claimed they spent on their son's upbringing and education.
The couple's counsel Arvind Srivastava said this amount also includes the cost incurred on the son's wedding at a five-star hotel, a luxury car gifted to him worth Rs 60 lakh, and money spent on his honeymoon abroad.
A local court in Haridwar admitted the petition on May 7 and it is listed for hearing on May 15.
"I have only one son. I spent all my savings on his upbringing and education. I sent him to the US in 2006 for a pilot training course. I spent over Rs 50 lakh for the same. He returned to India in 2007 due to the economic recession abroad. He had lost his job and could not find another for over two years. I supported him financially during this period as well," his father said.
"He (the son) soon got a job at a private airline as a pilot, after which we decided to get him married as my wife, 57, often keeps unwell. We finally got him married in 2016 with the hope that we would get a grandchild to play with within our retirement age. However, almost six years have passed and there is no child. We are facing immense mental harassment," he added.
"My son and daughter-in-law are living in two separate cities because of their jobs, causing us immense pain. We treated our daughter-in-law like our own daughter. Despite that, she seldom stays with us, adding to our sufferings. We even told her that if she is worried about taking care of the child due to her job, she could give the baby to us so that we could look after his upbringing. We are hardly left with any money because we spent everything on our son," the father told the media.
Meanwhile, Arvind Srivastava claimed that the case happened to be probably the first of its kind in Uttarakhand and perhaps in the country. He said that the demands of the parents are justified from their perspective and their expectations are not wrong.
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