The Bombay High Court said on Tuesday that Elderly persons are not being looked after by their kin due to the withering of the joint family system while ordering a man to vacate his mother's home illegally occupied by him and his wife.

A division bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Firdosh Pooniwalla noted that ageing has become a major social challenge and hence there is a need to give more attention to the care and protection of senior citizens, newswire PTI reported.