Legal questions on Property Law

Cancellation of Under construction Property

Dear Learned members, I have booked a flat in Mumbai in year 2015 and as per agreement the possession was due by June 2016. Builders have delayed the possession and they are now offering us fit out possession mentioning OC is expected by Dec 2018. we have paid 95% of the amount + stamp duty + registration + Service Tax + VAT till date. All above amounts were paid in July 2015. The agreeme...

I purchased a old tenat room in redevelopment project?

Sir I have purchased a old tenant room in mumbai which has gone in redevelopment the landlord of the building has given development rights ti builder the tenant has already done with the consent of the builder and has all the legal documents like rent receipt elextric bill and name in assesment and mhada extract list the main reason for this question is when we went to the landlord he is aski...

Landlord Not Returning Security Money

Hello, We had taken a house on rent from October 2017, for a period of two years lease as per the Lease and License Agreement. The agreement did not have a lock-in period, and mentioned that either parties (Tenant or Landlord) can vacate the premises after giving one month notice period in writing. As we were finding many issues with the house such as no 24X7 water supply(while taking the ho...

Difficult Tenants

Hello Advocate Sethi, I have a tenant that has not been paying rent on time and/or has delayed paying rent ever since the start of the agreement. (11 months) They were initially asked to give PDCs when signing the agreement but we were promised this would be handed within the week of signing the agreement, but till date that has never happened. When they defaulted and asked to vacate...

Landlord not giving back the security deposit

I had rented this property in Goa for Rs.18000 per month(exclusive of water bills and electricity) along with 2 other girls. The landlord took 3 months security deposit which amounted to Rs.54000, 18000 per person. After living there for almost 2 and a half months, we decided to shift to another apartment which was safer and more economical for us as we are just students. However, the landlords...

In joint house agreement one owner is no more than what is legal procedure

My mother died intestate. I am joint owner of the property and EMI is getting deducted from my bank account. Property is located in Thane Balkum. We are total 5 sibling including me (4 sisters and 1 brother). My father past away few years back. I am aware about the fact that my mom's shares will get equally divide among all five of us. 1) if we want to transfer 50% of my mom's share on ...

Sale of Undivided Ancestral Property with Inheritance Issue

Property - Consists of Undivided land and building Title Consists of : Brother 1 Brother 2 - Provided Brother 1 with Power of Attorney for sale of the said property Brother 3 - Expired (Has living spouse and adult son, Both living abroad) Brother 4 - Expired (Without Will, No children) In this scenario, it seems the living rightful owners to the property have the following shares. ...

Rights of a Widow (with 8 yr old Child) on Self Acquired property of Father-in law...

Case Description : The Property is in the name of deceased son's father and father (70 yrs age ) is still alive along with Wife (64 yrs age) , a divorced daughter, a daughter in law with 8 yrs grand son... 1. Son died due to chronic illness , he was working for a private organization. 2. Son only supported them financially as parents are not withdrawing any kind of pension. 3. Daughter ...

Builder selling Open areas as parking to second car owners

We are staying in an apartment of around 500 flats. All the flats have a stilt parking marked and allocated except 3 flats for which the builder agreed to allocate in open space with a shed. Now after constructing the 3 sheds, he is marking all open spaces with car parking and selling to flat owners who have second car. He is charging money for this but providing any legal receipt. This pract...

Fraud on part of the vendor

My father and my mother had jointly purchased a property along with a residential property vide a duly registered deed of sale in 1995. For all these years we had rented the said premises. Now after the death of my father in Nov 2016, in February 2018, we have got a court summons that a case has been registered against us for fraud. It is alleged that the signatures of the vendor and his wife w...

Landlord deducting additional rent

Hi, I have rented an house in Bangalore. Unfortunately after 15 days I had to make decision to leave the house due to personal issues. Until this time, the agreement was not created and all the agreement between the landlord and me was only verbal. But when I informed the landlord, that i was planning to vacate, she told me 3 months rent would be deducted. I was willing to pay her 1 month r...

Dispute in selling a property purchasor lingering for 8 years for payment.

My father had an unregistered agreement with a purchasor for selling a flat. the agreement was done on march 2010. from then onwards the purshasor is paying in installments and till date he has paid 80% of the agreed amount. however my father died in august 2017. after that we had not accepted any money from purchasor. our flat was ready by 2014. but there was delay in municipality paper works ...

Adding MY Mothers and siblings name in family property card

Hi My father expired 12 years ago we had purchased property from 2 person one was a bacheloer the other was married but not having children now the man who was maried expired so the land was purchased fro the bachelor and the married person (deceased) wife. The registration was done and the registration record card my fathers name is shown We approached the mucipal office to put the naame of ...

Revocation of gift deed

In 2009, my father has done gift deed settlement to his mother (my grandma) without my knowledge and my mother's knowledge due to family fight, when that time I was major. Because of the family fight, my aunty (my father's sister ) planned to make gift deed through my grandma to ask more share on the particular property. Note: the partition and settlement has been done in 1999 as well. Now the ...

Patta is in my Dad name

Hi , I am Pelsia Rani. My Dad has property in tamilnadu. The property patta is in my Dad name from year 1984 but the property tax was paid in my grandfather name (i.e Dad name) who was passed away in 1983. My grandma had taken light bill and water bill also in my grandpa name. My dad have two sisters who had stolen the original document after my dad death at 2016 and my grandma also died ...

Mere papa ki property

Meri do sister ek bhai tha. Maine love marriage ki to me ghar se bhar ho gayi. Ab bacha ek bhai ek sister fir kuch 8 ya 10 years ke baad mere mata or pita budhe ho gaye mata ka dehant ho gaya inhi karan se mera ghar bigad gaya behan bai ki mareez thi or bhai ko kuch logo ne kidnap karke mar dia. Unka ata pata kuch nhi chala ghar me aisa koi nhi tha jo chan been kare to is karan mere budhe peeta...

Villa Springs - Recovery Suite

Hi Team, I am a resident and owner of a house at Hyderabad it is not a aparment it is a independent villa. An year ago I have purchased this house and signed the bylaws which I have seen only on the registration day. Though it is a gated community there are three houses which are outside the gate and facing government main road without a wall and a gate. Our RWA illegally constructed a divider ...

Landlord refusing to return the security deposit

I recently moved to navi mumbai for job and i rented a pg room. Me and my roomates paid around 5.5k as deposit(500 was for police verification the certificate upon asking repeatedly was never shown). The landlord had certain rules, which was the agreement and we had to sign it and the points say that we are supposed to stay for more than 3 months and we have give exactly one month notice period...

Changing the name of owner by forgery

In my case, a land was purchased in 1977 in my father's name by my grand father. My father is eldest son among seven. My father was managing the family business and family property and documents since other were studying. With the passes of time due to some conflicts in family my father left everything, took loan from Bank and started his own business on a rented land . Now my grand father who ...

Mone back

I have consulted a property dealer for buying a plot on 30th November 2017. I have paid all the money that he has instructed me to pay first.... 11000 for token money and 39000 cash, then he gave me the time till 25th feb 2018 to get the housing loan sanctioned by bank but because of my credit score was not up to the mark to get a loan of 30 lakhs, my loan requisition was getting rejected from ...