Court evicts man from dad’s flat
Failing to pay rent in time to his father landed a man in trouble, as Rohini Court additional rent controller Rakesh Kumar ordered him to vacate the flat he was using.
The court passed the eviction order against Rajender Singh, against whom his father, Jaswant Singh, moved the court pleading that he had rented it out to his son who had been defaulting in rent payment for over a decade.
The court ordered Rajender to move out of his two-room premises.
Jaswant had filed the petition seeking to evict his son from the top-floor flat of his house saying the latter had not paid the rent since July 2000 for the accommodation at Tilak Nagar in west Delhi.
He had said that he is the owner of the building and had let out the two-room set to his son Rajender for residential use only on a monthly rent of `3,000.
He further said after Rajender stopped paying him the rent, he served him a notice on August 14, 2000 demanding the rent and eventually terminated his tenancy agreement for his failure to pay him the rent dues, including electricity and water usage charges.
Rajender, however, opposed his father’s claims saying that the property in dispute was acquired by his grand mother and his father was not the absolute owner of the property.
He added that he had invested a huge sum of money in the construction of the building and its top floor, and he, along with his younger brother, used to pay a sum of `1,000 per month to Jaswant as maintenance which the latter used to treat as rent for the accommodation.
Rajender alleged his father had been harassing him on false pretexts and had also lodged a complaint against him at the Tilak Nagar police station in 1998 and 2000.
The court, however, did not heed to Rajender’s contentions and said, “Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, I am of the considered opinion that the respondent Rajender did not follow the procedure prescribed under law.”
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