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engineer1 (Household member)     25 March 2012

Property care-taker - not a tenant

Dear Lawyer Community,  I am an NRI with property I own near Delhi.  I have assigned a family-friend a Care-Taker of the Property which is the residentail house.  Their family lives there since 2009.  My friends are telling me that it is un-safe to have someone live there without ANY kind of Agreement on vacating it when I need it to be vacated.

Please advise if there is an Agreement possible so that I know they will vacate when I want.  Or is it safe to have absolutely NO Agreement at all?  I do not want to leave any loophole in some poorly worded Agreement.

 

Please advise.

 

Thanks



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Adv.R.P.Chugh (Advocate/Legal Consultant (rpchughadvocatesupremecourt@hotmail.com))     25 March 2012

Dear Querist,

A case quite similar to yours was before the Supreme Court a couple of days back. Here is the judgment. 

In a nutshell - it is always better to execute a leave and license agreement. However even without that - your friend occupies the property in the capacity of a care-taker enjoying custody (mind you not possession) of the property permissively. He can be ousted from the same by a simple suit for recovery, and even if you re-enter into property in his absense taking all his stuff out, he cannot sue you for recovery, because his possession is not possession in the eyes of law, for he holds the property only on your behalf and has no right/title/interest - however by way of abundant caution - do execute a fool-proof agreement. 

In any case (with or without agreement) you'd have to seek court's indulgence to get him out of the property if he refuses to do so. 

engineer1 (Household member)     25 March 2012

Thanks for your prompt reply and valuable suggestion.  I never knew about Leave and Licensee Agreement.  I will explore this and have a carefully worded Agreement.  Thanks Again.

Regards

Engineer1

H. S. Thukral (Lawyer)     25 March 2012

Dear Bharat

referring to the Judgment of SC Maria Margadia Sequeria quoted herein above by you , can it be said that while a suit for possession is pending, trial court can award mesne profits  subject to owner putting a charge on his property for refund of the same in case he loses? 


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