The two were ‘misled’ by the Vashi police and illegally detained for several days as the mother threatened to commit suicide after her grievances against her grandchildren were not looked into by the police. The grandchildren, who are ‘influential’, have been trying to usurp her property for some time now.u00a0

The petitioner, a widow, Mohini Kamwani, hails from Vashi, where she takes care of her mentally-handicapped daughter, Kanta. Her son Dilip left his job in Dubai to take care of his aging mother. Dilip has valiantly fought his mother’s case since last year. Mohini’s husband was a freedom fighter who had been jailed during the freedom movement.