• How to get the lease deed cancelled.

DRT has auctioned a property of mine and that property has no legal opinion at the time of hypothecation in 1980 and i wasn't even born. My father has mortgaged my property where he has only life interest on that property. (Actually my property is bought my grand mother in 1960 which are 2 pieces of property which look to be single when view) and she expired in 1976 executing a registered giving life interest to my father and absolute title to his male issue which is me and me only. But bank in the year 2014 has auctioned the property which they don't seem to have rights thinking i am in abroad and wont know this. But i came to know about the issue in 2016 and filed a declaration suit against the buyer. bank, DRT and my father challenging the sale and also requested court to provide injection not to alienate the property and court had granted it. 

Buyer of this property had transferred a piece of property on his wifes name as mode of gift to her and we don't know this when i filed this case and came to know this lately and requested court to implied buyers wife into the case and also put up the injection stay on the same. 

While things stood that way buyer after getting injection pledged the property that is on his wife's name to the same bank where he bought and took a loan of about 5 crores. After 1 year which is recently released the title by paying the bank 5 crores. After a while he created a lease deed on one of his family members for 30 years lease for just about 20k per month rent and started dismantling the property to his choice. 

As i am living abroad seems like he is taking the undue advantage on this. Thanks to e system where i can check and get the encumbrance certificate of that property. So i have proof's that he did contempt of court by leasing and creating they hypotheications illegally. 

Question
a) Can i ask court to cancel the lease deed that he had executed when there was injection pending? If so whats the best way to present my case to court?
 b) Looks to me that bank and the purchaser have colluded extremely in this context and want to present the court and what actions can we ask for to take against them. 
c) Any thing interesting that i can ask the court ?
Asked 8 years ago in Property Law
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6 Answers

1. File a contempt petition for violating the order of injunction. Make the lessee a party to the suit as well. There is no need to file a separate suit to cancel the lease. Once the initial sale is set aside all subsequent transfer including the lease will fall apience.

2.You cna give POA to your close relative in India so he in your absence can represent you in court. Moreover he cana lso keep a close watch on the case to keep your updated .

3. If there is inordinate delay in trial of the suit you can apply beofre the high court for expeditious disposal of the suit.

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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537 Consultations

1) take out contempt of court proceedings against purchaser for having executed lease deed

2)you can amend your petition and seek court order to set aside lease deed executed by purchaser

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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Dear Client,

Best fast remedy is to file contempt.

Here, ur father act is under clouds, under what capacity he mortgaged the property, If he disclaim, inherited from her mother and not disclosed WILL, he may book for cheating ?

a) Can i ask court to cancel the lease deed that he had executed when there was injection pending? If so whats the best way to present my case to court? -- No need to file for cancellation of lease deed, Filling contempt is best way out.

b) Looks to me that bank and the purchaser have colluded extremely in this context and want to present the court and what actions can we ask for to take against them. -- There`s already an injunction prevailed, which is enough and its violated by opposite party.

c) Any thing interesting that i can ask the court ? -- Which year u acquire majority ? without courts permission, property of minor cannot be mortgage.

At present u r advised to file contempt, rest can be advised on perusal of court records.

Yogendra Singh Rajawat
Advocate, Jaipur
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31 Consultations

1. Since the bank had created a bad mortgage, the sale of the said mortgaged property was illegal.So, all the subsequent deeds executed thereafter are illegal. You should present before the Court that your father had no right to mortgage the property which was registered in your favour (probably a gift deed not clarified by you wherein your father only had living right).

2. The Court will consider it tat your father, being in league with the Bank officials, had defrauded the Bank by mortgaging the property which does not belong to him against the loan availed by him. In case you win the case and get your property back, the bank might lodge a police complaint against your father or defrauding it.

3. Since you were not aware of the fact that your property has been illegally mortgaged and sold by the Bank, you can file a Writ Petition before the High Court (if it is a PSU Bank), praying for a direction upon the Bank to return the property documents (deed) to you duly cancelling the said illegal sale made by the Bank by returning the sale proceeds with interest.

4.Since your father has first illegally mortgaged the property, the High Court (or any other Court for that matter) might cast a doubt on your bonafide since this type of cases regularly appear before the DRT and/or High courts for which you shall have to take adequate guard while placing your arguments.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
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726 Consultations

hi, it is advisable to obtain a stay order for the above transactions by filing a writ directly in supreme court, instead of initiating multiple litigations in lower court

Hemant Chaudhary
Advocate, Gurgaon
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67 Consultations

1. When there is an injunction against the respondents restraining them from alienating or encumbering the property in any manner, the act of the respondent is nothing but disobeying the court order which can be termed as contempt of court.

You can file a contempt of court application against the respondent immediately and also an application requesting court to direct the registrar to cancel the said registered lease deed and to make a note against the property in the register to not to allow any further encumbrance on this property.

2. The bank's involvement cannot be ruled out but you cannot prove that since the other property has directly engaged in the said act..

Hence first you take action against the respondent for contempt of the court order.

3. You can discuss with your advocate about it, because it is your advocate who will be representing you in the court and not you.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
89977 Answers
2492 Consultations

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