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Please advise me on the following issue....
Dear Sirs/Madams i have purchased a property i.e. Land plus building where a Commercial entity used to operate few years back....it is closed since 10.09.2006 .
Let me explain the situation....
The lessee offered to sell the building along with the land which he had taken on unregistered lease from the lessor. I was aware of the fact that he was not the owner of the land therefore i questioned him how can he sell their land. He replied saying he had a discussion with the owners and they have too have agreed to sell their land. i beleived him and then made a written bainanama agreement wherein his son was the witness....on a 10 rupees stamp paper ...... i kept the condition that either he would buy the property in his name first and then sell the same to me or get the owners to sell directly to me ...all on his own responsibility....i further kept the condition that since there is huge dues of rent, staff salaries,etc,.....all the previous dues of staff, security guard, rent dues, etc have to be cleared by the lessee and then he has to take out his furnitures like chairs, benches,,,machineries only leaving the building and land......The total land is 0.48 acre.
it so happened that after around 2 years lessee puchased 0.14 acre in his son's name and then gave us registry of the same..... i further mention that this particular land position is the front portion of the buildingl......then 2 more years passed but they could not give us registry of the remaining land and then he told us orally that he cant get the remainig land for us and therefore if i want i can purchase the remaining and from the owners directly.....i got the remaining land registered from the land owners directly and then completed the mutation as well.
Now the problem is that he is not giving us possession of the property and applied to different authorities to reopen the cinema hall....On knowing we have filed objections to all suh authorities.
My queries are:
1. Is their unregistered lease enforceable as the lease is more than 15 years old and is an unregistered one?
2. Since he have purchased a part of the land in his son's name and gave us the registry of the same....Does that terminate the lease agreement?
3. The agreed consideration mentioned in the bainanama agreement whose copy is only with me... was much more than the total sale deed value ......Does that have any legal bindings toward me? Can they demand more money for that?
4. I want to know that if i forcefully vacate the land and buildingl and take the possession of the same then in legal way can they object my possession?
plz reply .....
Thanking you.
M Hossain