Hello,
We are tenants living for rent in Bangalore. We entered with an agreement with the landlord for rent of his house. This rental agreement was not registered in the Office of the Registrar. The landlord stays in the first floor of the same premises while we live in the ground floor.
The rentral agreement expires at the end of this month (Feb). We have communicated (on 22nd of this month) with the landlord that we shall be vacating the premises one month from now (22nd of March) as per the agreement. The landlord did not communicate anything to us other than agreeing to what we said to vacate the premises.
The landlord is thinking of holding one month's rent as well as demanding the premises to be newly re-painted and cleaned. We learnt about this when they had communicated about this to somebody but not to us. These two issues are not in the agreement. What are the legal remedies?
We are feeling harassed and we have never encountered this kind of unjust demands anywhere. What is the remedy for this? If he decide to go to police or court, what shall we do? Can the Landlord demand like this at the time of vacating? As tenants we are not aware of any kind of protection that could be provided to us from such greedy landlords.
Please help.
Thanks
Aggrieved tenant