Hello Everybody,
Firstly I thank this forum for helping a lot of people on legal issues.
Am living in a rented apartment in chennai, rent of 9k per month.Rental agreement exist for 11 months from oct 2008 to sep 2009.The agreement says that agreement can be extended for a furhter period of 11 months, if mutually agreed. Also there is a clause which states that if the tenant pays the rent regularly and observes the rules, the landlord will not have any objection in extending the agreement.But the landlord did not adhere to this and asked us to vacate the apartment inspite of regular payment of rent and has filed a suit in january 2010 under rent control act under bona fide requirement. Some of the facts are - The landlord is having 2 daughters and a son.The landlord is owning three apartments of which one is ocupied by him and his wife, one is occupied by his daughther and her family(doctor by profession) and the third one is rented to me. The other duaghter is living in abroad and the son is working in Integral Coach Factory and living separately. The son is a divorcee and does not have a good relationship with his father, as a result of which he is living separately. Now the father claims that he is likely to arrange a second marraige to his son and he needs the rented apartment for his son's sake. He has not made any marraige arrangements and the secoond marraige has not happened.
The intention of marraige is not true and he wants to evict us and rent the apartment to somebody for want of more rent. Also, in my family, I have a dependant father, mother and brother and both my father and brother are sick people (father is suffering from alzheimer disease) and need continous medical treatment.
Will the court consider the requirement of landlord as a bonafide requirement? How should i defend my case? How can i prove that the requirement of landlord is not a bona fide one. Kindly seeking your expert advise.
Thanks in Advance !
