Hi Law gurus,
First, I would like to thanks to all experts for helping/sharing thiers valuable and legal advices on Lawyers Club India.
Here is my story:
We have a house in Rampur Dist of UP. My father bought a property on mother's name adjoining our parental property. We had two tenants living of my father's home for around 6 years but 4 years back we vacated that property from both of them. But we rented them my mom's property and we never did a rent agreement with them. Since both properties are adjoining the passage, water supply is common in both house. We have given them electricity form my father's house as there was no meter on the other property.
These tenant had bought 50 sqyrd property each near our properties and one of them taken an electricity meter on that property around 2-3 years back. Both of them then stopped using electricity from our side instead they start using the meter he has taken. The meter is currently installed at my father's prop.
Now when we asked him to vacate the property as we want to sell out the property to pay our loan. They are denying to vacate and stop paying rent. As precautionary action we complaint in the electricity dept that our tenant are using electrity from his meter in our house without our permission. Electricity dept disconnected his electricity line last month. They are now living withour electricity. FYI, they have already sold out the property on which one of them has taken electricity meter.
They did one more thing that they send out rent by money order but we did not accept it and when we are asking for rent they are denying to pay and are saying we have deposited in court. When they send money order they send it to my father's name while they are living in my mother's property. We have not received any confrimation from the court that our tenant has deposited the rent. We are not sure if they really deposited in court or not.
Could you please let us know what legal action should we take now. Can we send them notification as one of them did not pay rent for 1 year and other did not pay for 2 months.
Kindly advise.
thanks and regards
Jitendra