The Madras High Court recently ruled that a tenant who lives in a property on the basis of an unregistered rent agreement signed with the property owner’s brother, must show proof of a landlord-tenant relationship. Without this proof, the tenant is simply an unauthorised occupant, and won’t get protection against eviction.
This judgement came from a case filed by Mr Durai, a tenant from Kanthasamy Vathiyar Street, Tamil Nadu who sought an injunction stopping the property owner from evicting him. Before this court case, the situation had already escalated to involving the police since the property owner and his sons had gone to the tenant’s home and damaged trees there on December 6, 1989.
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