Legal questions on Property Law

Forefathers land partition among 2 brothers then their childrens

Hi Dear Law experts.. I'm looking for your inputs to proceed further actions. Background: My grandfather's father(GFF) had 2 sons and 1 daughter. My grandfather(GF2) is Younger for his father. Land(24+12acres) was registered on his brother(GF1). GF2 went to his sister family to help them after her death. He spent nearly 20years there, while he was there he brought 5 acres land & sold it, retur...

Refund for cancellation

Hi. I recently booked a flat 28th April 2016 a society that was almost 80% complete. I filled the provisional booking form. We agreed with 30% payment in 10 months (5% in every two months) and rest 70% on possession.first demand letter was issued in june but they had one line item that was due on 30th May. Then the demand letter said 70% on near completion not on possession. This was not mentio...

Illegal Sale of Land by cousin

Hi, My grand father purchased piece of Land and build shops in them . The land didnt have registry however it was entered in the nagar palika documents under his name( Called Patte ki Zamin). Now i nthe family, grand father died and grand mother also no more. They have two sons ( my father and Tauji) and daughters. One of them being my father who along with my mother also no more. My Tauji is...

Parking rights in a building - Builder floor vs Ground Floor

Few years ago, I purchased the first floor of a 4 floor 100 sq yard building (Ground, 1st, 2nd and 3rd) which was originally the builder floor. All floors except mine are owned by the original owner - a senior citizen couple who live on the ground floor. Their son and his family live on the third, while they have rented out their second floor. The only parking space is on the society road, ...

Delay in possession and very rude behaviour

Hi All, I purchased a property in 2013 and they given me in written that if CC doesn't come by 6 months they will refund my amount. After 6 months they just made my life hell and after struggling with them for couple of months i only cooperated with them and get shifted to their another project in 2014 as i was having no option at that time. Now, in this project also i am struggling the s...

Permission to get guest during the day and eviction of house

Hello I have a query regarding the tenancy laws. I am a student and I live with a friend in Mumbai. I am a bachelor and I have rented a flat in Andheri (W), Mumbai. The society I live in says that I cannot bring any girl over to my house. Not even in the day time for a few hours. Nothing like this has been mentioned in my contract but they say this is a society rule. Recently I brought ...

Verbal Notice of Vacating property

I am a tenant at Bangalore Karnataka. My lease agreement expired on the 8th of July 2016 and the same hasn't been renewed thereafter. However, I am still staying at the rented apartment. I wanted to move out of the apartment and hence along with my flatmates, I gave a verbal notice of vacating the property to the Landlord on the 30th September, 2016 stating that I will vacate the property la...

Property Registration

Dear Sir, 1. My grand father has 4 sons and 4 daughters. 2. At his 50th age, In 1960's he has write a will stating, the house is only for his Sons and not for his daughters. (Grandfather was passed away in 1991 and grandmother passwed away in 2001) 3. According to the will, If any among 4 son is willing to relocate, is free move out of the house by receiving 10K as settlement 4. Among ...

Builder delaying Registation of flat

I am looking for advice regarding a serious issue I am facing. I have purchased a ready to move in flat in December 2015 directly from builder for which I paid complete amount ( 70% financed from HDFC Bank) in Faridabad. I am following up for registration of flat and builder is delaying it giving me next month's timeline everytime. Later I came to know that the builder pledged some units as a ...

Owner withholding security deposit for silly reasons

I have stayed in a flat in Hyderabad from 1st September 2012 to 31st March 2016. I paid 28000/- as a security deposit. Initially we made agreement for 11 months. However, I continued in a flat beyond 11 months from 1st September. Neither owner nor I insisted for rental agreement renewal. In February 1st Week I have given him a notice to vacate the flat by end of March. I paid him rent f...

Property gifted by me to be revoked

Dad retired in 1981. His benefits were not enough to buy a house. So, I applied for a loan in Feb 1981. It was solely in my name till 2015. In May 1981, I got married. My dad promised to pay all the instalments but he did not pay me the loan instalments from Feb 1981 to May 1981 and from 1991 till the loan account was closed.My parents got me married to a man whose first wife was dead. This wa...

Can Car Parking be taken away?

Hi, The project that I live in has 4 sectors, of which two sectors are ready and sold (1500 odd flats) 3rd and 4th under construction. In my sector there are 11 buildings and each building is being formed into a CHS society (60 flats each). The plan is that all societies will roll in into an association/federation/apex body. This body will manage the club house, gym, park and common areas. ...

Property Ownership rights

Dear Experts, My grandfather from mother's side bought a property back in 1978 and as he was not that educated the lawyer named the property paper GPA under my grandmother's name but the signature was all done by my grandfather only. after few years my grandfather's son (my uncle) suggested my grand father to transfer half of the property to my grand mother's and for that a Notary attested GPA...

Who will be the true owner of the property ??

Sir, This is a matter relating to my Grandmother & my father.... In 1953 my grandfather and his younger brother purchased a plot of land in Guwahati but in the name of my Grandmother(Chitha mutation but not registered) she was just 13 years old at that time..Then they lived happily in Hindu joint family..In 1987 my father built a house in this land where we are residing now... In 2004 My gra...

Powers of Govt. to acquire land for road widening ..

Sir, I would like your advice on following land related issue: 1.I have 2 acres of land on a state highway in U.P. purchased 12 years back.Recently it has been announced that it is being upgraded to national highway. 2.I had obtained NOC from PWD according to which I was supposed to leave 60 feet of land from the centre of road which I duly left for the boundary wall. 3.The site is for schoo...

Landlord forcing me to give house keys before returning deposit

I'm staying in a rented house for 2 years. Just 15 days before the end of the agreement, I informed the owner via phone that I would vacate the house in 30 days, and the owner acknowledged this. 10 days before the deadline: I informed the owner that I would be completely vacating the house in 5 days. I requested the owner to transfer the security deposit so that I can hand over the house ke...

OC Certificate inspite of illegal temple structure in the premise

Hi, I am a resident from Mumbai. We have purchased the property while being under-construction. It is a tower (22 floors). Currently it is built completely but we are yet to move in. The builder has built an illegal temple in the premises for a community that does not live in the building. First he build the entrance to the temple inside our premises. They had to enter our gate to go to the te...

Can builder ask for maintenance charges after possession but ,,

I booked a flat in Punjab from the builder in 2008 and builder offered me the possession in Dec 2012. Delayed possession but builder compensated the amount as per mutual understanding of both. Total flats in the complex is close to 800 and when builder given the physical possession in Feb 2013 construction was going on in the complex. Building got completed in 2015 and builder got the comple...

Lock in period in rental agreement

I toom a property on rental without having a look at the place physically myself. Paid an advance rent before i could see and on the saod date of visit, paid the deposit amount as well - Monday 5th Sep. However we did not like the place so informed the owner the next morning that we dont want to take the place and offered to compensate woth 2-3 months of rent. He indicated he needs to talk to l...

Delayed Delivery of Modular Kitchen

Hi, We worked with a company for three weeks (last week March 2016 and first two weeks in April 2016) and arrived at a kitchen plan and signed off on the plan of the kitchen with dimensions to the millimeter detail. I then confirmed my kitchen order from the same company On 17th of April where they claimed that every 22 days they ship out a kitchen from their production site and the kitch...