Legal questions

Equality of opportunity in public employment.

Art. 16(1) of the Constitution of India incorporates a fundamental right to the effect that there shall be equality of opportunity to all citizens of India in matters of recruitment to any office under the State. Exceptions to this general right are contained in other clauses of art. 16 itself as alsi in article 33. Article 13 prohibits the State from making any law which takes away or abridges...

Rogue Tenant not vacating property

My tenant is not vacating premises and wants me to reduce rent and give him an eight month extension to stay. He has a very flickering mind and mostly contradicts his own statement. 2 months back he gave me a notice vide sms to vacate citing reason that rent is higher than market value and he can only extend if I reduced rent. I accepted his notice to vacate and asked him to vacate and he stopp...

Salary payment during notice period

Greetings for the day! I'm working for one of the MNC in Mumbai. I applied my resignation letter on 25/08/2014 and i stated in the letter that i will serve my notice period of 60 days and the same has been accepted from my company. Today i got a email from my company saying my salary for the month of Sep2014 has been held and will be settled on your last working day. I was not informed about...

Property held by Partnership Firm

Hello All, I had started a partnership firm in 1987. Along with my partner we purchased a 5000 sq feet plot to setup our factory. The plot was purchased in the name of the firm. The 7/12 extract mentions the name as "Firm's Name (XYZ Industries) represented by partners - Partner 1 & Partner 2". The partnership deed is unregistered. Within 5 years of starting the firm ceased operations and for...

Can any of the Leagal heir's ask for their part of share...?

My mother-in-law was died when my wife was a 5year old kid, from then her grand-mother has brought up her, at the time of marriage her grand mother has gifted her a 2 acors of land which was registered as my wife purchased from her grand mother and grand father. Its two years now but the land was cultivating by my wife's uncle(her grand mothers son) with out paying anything to us and we came to...

Does owning NCDs or OCDs in an SPV grant me ownership in SPVs assets?

Hello, I am looking to purchase a commercial property via Fractional Ownership. There are many online platforms in this space and all of them are following an SPV route where property is registered onto the SPVs name and investors get securities in the SPV. However they are structuring it in a 20:80 ratio or 5:95 ratio where 5% is given as equity and 95% as debentures. They are following a debe...

How to servive with my autistic son.

I was married in pune, this was my husband s second marriage. He has daughter (18 yrs) from his first wife. After marriage my husband started beating me on without any reason, like my mother is doing all work, why did you cook like this?, they are gujrati and I m from punjab, they live in pune, there was so much difference in our cultures. But I worked hard to do everything. If my step daughter...

Landlord Harrasment

Hello, I'm a 27 yr old male journalist from Mumbai, and have been living in a rented studio apartment for 5-6 months now. I've been hosting couchsurfers on a regular basis, men, women and couples. None have stayed over a week. Last week, my landlady barged in asking about why I have foreigners staying over, and while I tried to explain the concept of Couchsurfing (a free service), she refused t...

Disputes related to ancestral property

Dear Sir/Madam, Greetings of the day. I have a few questions regarding our ancestral property disputes between claimants. The property is nearly 2 bigha in total, an one storey building consisting 4 rooms and a pond measuring about 1 bigha is in between. total property is guraded by wall. Owner was my grandfather.He died 30 years ago without any will deed. he had 3 daughters, 2 sons, I am his...

IPC 409, 419 and 420

I was working in nationalised bank. I put 3.5 years service in bank. On 28.04.2012 IO came from zonal office and gave suspension letter stating I have committed fraud. Then he along with my manager typed a statement that I have comitted fraud. They said if I accept it and sign it then you will get minor punishment. And if I dont sign, they will call police and get me arrested. I signed it. They...

regarding employment in a consultancy

I was working with a registered consultancy firm from 5th august 2014 till 8th September 2014.Suddenly I discontinued job with them without resignation and notice period because I got new good opportunity.They gave me offer letter through mail and salary slip too for my 1 month total service.I have no appointment letter hard copy with me and they too don’t have any signed document or contract o...

Advertised salary not paid

I joined a Public Sector Company (Central Govt) after advertisement, interview and selected. The Advertisement clearly promised CTC (Cost to company) of 8.5 lakhs per annum. During interview they provided a breakup. The appointment order clearly mentioned all the components payable. But, after joining, I was paid only 5 lakhs per annum. I represented and the management did not give any prope...

abetment of suicide

I was in a relationship with a boy for 2 yrs (from 2005-2007).we also got physically intimate.But he became controlling and suspicious on me so i broke it off with him..we also informed his parents that this relationship is over.He did not take rejection very well.He started blackmailing me with photos that we took,threatening and harassing me,he used foul language.I begged him to leave me alon...

regarding chit fund transfer fraud

Hello sir, We were introduced to a chit fund agent srinivas who was working for margadarsi chit funds company by a very reliable close family friend in bangalore. He seemed genuine and very honest and hence we thought of going a chit fund. He said he had a party (damodar raj) who had been paying for a chit since 20 months and couldn't pay further and wanted to transfer the chit after the 20 ...

adultery with a widow

After 24yrs of married life my husband has developed adultery with a widow lady. He is working in a state govt undertaking organization & he was transferred to other district on deputation where he is right royally living together with that widow lady and her two daughters. We came to know about this through a letter sent to us by localites in Jan'11. From that time till date he stopped coming ...

Unresponsive Tenant

Dear Sir, I would like to ask for your advice in the matter of my flat. I had rented out 1 3 bedrooms flat to a family about little less than a year ago. About 4 months back, I was in need of putting my flat on the market and informed the tenant of my intention, so he will allow potential buyer to see the flat with fixed schedule. I also let him know that I would only sell to buyer that will...

case detail

dear sir, Kindly provide judgement date or other detail of below mentioned case, so that I could download it from supreme court website Thanking you Andhra scam: Supreme Court snubs govt for letting off 'big sharks, crocodiles' Thursday, 28 October 2010 - 7:54pm IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI A bench of Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra said ...

304-b of ipc and 32 of evidence act

A' was working as an officer in hospital department and B' was the daughter of a labourer. they married before two years in temple, before the marriage the parties knew each other .A knew this fact before marriage. death of B' occured due to 95% burn injuries. dying declaration was made in which B ' alleged against 'A' about the demand of dowry but after the incidence of burning 'A' im...

pls suggest a legal way to persuade my wife to live with me

my wife left my house along with my 6 year old daughter from june 2014 while i was working abroad.i left my job & came to india in july 2014.while i was working abroad i was sending money to her.the reason of her leaving me was that she found my profile seeking remarriage in some matrimonial site which was not done by me as it was registered with my india phone number of which the handset was w...

Consumer Forum

Sir, i have bought a new company fitted Hyundai Sentro car in July 2009, IN January 2010 the car got completely damaged in an fire accident, but the insurance company denied to pay as the CNG was not on the papers, Car Dealer "Rishabh Motors" accepted their fault that they have lost the original RC o the said vehicle, and despite my several followups they were not able to get the CNG registered...