Recording a meeting between two parties without consent
Municipality office held a meeting between two parties (A and B), and at the end of the meeting, party B told us he recorded the entire meeting using mobile and going to file a complaint against us in the police station because party B didn’t like the judgement, which he did after few hours. It was all verbal communication between party A and B and no harm was done to each other. Now my question is– can party B record the conversion without informing party A and the municipality officials? The municipality didn’t give any parties permission to record it. Again it was a meeting held at a municipality office and not at a public place. Both parties were called upon thereby a legal notice from the municipality.
I’ve already read about the right to privacy act, article 21 of the Indian Constitution, IT Act(66E. Punishment for violation of privacy) and some other articles on google. But none of them are very explanative to my situation. Please help. I'm also looking forward to hiring a lawyer if I feel l can file a case against party B.
Asked 6 years ago in Constitutional Law
My father let my uncle stay on his property for 24 years, he was 19 at that time when his parents passed away. And now he won't move out, demanding that he owns the property. My father built a house and let him stay on the first floor and we are staying on the ground floor.
My father paid panchayat taxes for 25 years & when municipality took over the panchayat, my uncle started paying taxes of the property & we didn't take any action, but the property papers were under my father's name. Now he went to municipality office and showed them those tax papers and got the property mutated on 2014. Now we don't know how or when he did it, he asked us to leave the property this year so we asked the municipality to hold a meeting between my father & uncle so we can see what papers he presented there to get the property mutated under his name. It took over 4 months to get a meeting date & when my uncle entered the meeting place, this is how he acted.
1) We were 4 people there, my father, me and 2 friends of my father.
2) My uncle came alone there.
3) He told that he didn't know there will be these many people in the meeting room & he would've bought a lawyer if he knew. Those 2 people came with us are our neighbors, not lawyers, my uncle clearly knew that.
4) He refused to sign the meeting attendance paper because he said that would get him in a position where he's agreeing to the judgment of the meeting.
5) The meeting never happened because he started shouting about all these things, we tried to calm him down so the meeting could get started, he left his chair and started running around shouting and demanding that we are intimidating him and pulled out his mobile and said he was recording all this thing & going to file a complaint against us.
6) My uncle had to show us the documents which he used to get property mutated if the meeting ever started. So if we know about those documents we could file a case against him in court. So he acted this way.
7) The law officer canceled the meeting and said this is not a place to quarrel and asked both parties to leave the office.
8) My point is why we would try to intimidate my uncle in a government office and in front of a law officer, that's absurd. My uncle lives 12 feet above us, we could intimidate or threaten him anytime, which we never did. We waited 4 months to get a meeting date so we could talk peacefully. Btw he's a High school headmaster.
9) My father is 67 years old & getting weaker, it's painful for him to do all these meetings.
I'm looking for some answers
A. How to obtain those papers that my uncle used to get the property mutated under his name. Can he use Adverse Possession act? I read that if an owner is living on the property no one can claim his land. Can I ask the municipality to give us those mutation papers so we can file a case?
C. What are the steps that we can take in this situation?
Asked 6 years ago