The Karnataka High Court has held that a daughter cannot avoid her “legal, moral, and social” obligation to care for her mother, while upholding an order directing a 44-year-old woman to return property gifted to her by her mother on the understanding that she would be looked after. Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum dismissed the plea filed by R Pavithra challenging the annulment of a gift deed executed by her mother, G Hema, 62, under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. “The facts of the present case poignantly reflect the vulnerability of a senior citizen who, despite owning property, is compelled to live in a rented house after transferring her assets to her children,” Justice Magadum said in an order dated April 27. Due to marital discord with her husband, Hema lived with Pavithra for about 3.5 years in her own house.…