Mumbai: A son getting caught in a crossfire between mother and wife is a story straight out of an Indian soap opera, but a city court recently dealt with a role- reversal, where a mother sought relief from her quarrelling son and daughter-in-law.

Additional Sessions Judge R B Malik passed an interim order last week, restraining son and daughter-in-law of Usha Vyas (name changed) to leave the house where the family lives, within four weeks.

Vyas has filed a civil suit to evict her son and daughter -in-law from the family's house in suburban Vile Parle. The house stands in her own name.
Generally these kind of suits are filed by landlords to evict tenants or trespassers. But in this case what led Vyas to get an interim eviction order against her own son and daughter-in-law was the couple's turbulent marital life.

Vyas lawyer Nitin Vatkar argued before the court that her son and daughter-in-law had a troubled marriage, and in fact the son had filed a divorce suit in the family court.

But the family court did not grant her son's application to have his wife restrained from living in the same house.