n December 2012, a legal notice arrived at a ground-floor flat in Paschim Vihar, New Delhi, demanding that Raj Kumar pack up his belongings and leave. He had lived in the house for over two decades with his wife and two young daughters, but the man asking him to leave was not a distant landlord—it was his own father, Attar Singh.
What began as a quiet family arrangement in 1990 slowly turned into an ugly war over property rights, commercial sub-letting, and cut-off utility lines. When Raj Kumar chose to stay and fight his father in court, he set off a 13-year legal battle that would outlive him and eventually leave his surviving family with a final eviction order from Delhi High Court.
