Asking for rent during lockdown

Legally, he has no right to deny rent, as there were business and rent, etc were fixed expenses in no way connected with the running of a business..  Humanity should be on both sides and as rent is your sustenance, the tenant is not legally right in refusing to pay rent.  Some persons are misguided or they misinterpret some news to their own favor and depending on your earlier and future relations you may take further action.

If he seeks amnesty  on humantirain grounds that is your prerogative   to grant or not, but legally if failed to give rent he will be defaulter and that is ground for eviction

Sir,

As the legal procedure goes, he has no right to waive off the rent completely. You can inform him of the provisions made by the concerned government in this regard and thus argue with him. Paying the rent at this very moment is not necessary and is not even possible seeing the pandemic and the circumstances hereby. However complete denial to pay the rent is legally wrong and you have the right to evict him however, only after the situations are easy and the lockdown is over. 

Regards

Shreya

You need to take a lenient view. Moreover, the court will not entertain any action to evict him on this ground.

The tenant is bound to pay rent, which is his / her legal liability..

However, you may be lenient purlely on humanitarian grounds. 

This is a fresh query. Post it in a separate thread.