Beware of your tenant

I am putting another mail up on how the tenants can fox the landlord and seize their property.

Please beware of such cases

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Resp. Sir,

Sub: Police Inaction in the case of house grabbing by Deepak Niranjanath Pandit (Superitendant of Customs, Air Cargo Complex, Mumbai, brother of producer/Director Ashok Pandith) by misusing official power /and connection at high places

We, Mr & Mrs. K. Gopal Rao aged 75 years and 65 years are the Legal owners of flat no 803 Brookhill Tower, Andheri (W), Mumbai. Mr and Mrs. Deepak Pandit are known to us through Ravi Suvarna who is also Superintendent of Customs, approached to us for temporary shelter for a period of 2-3 months, since in the society in which they stay do not have lift and Mrs Arushi D.Pandit was undergoing a major heart surgery in Leela Hospital and need one bedroom in our flat. Hence, we allowed Mr. Deepak Pandit to stay in our flat with his wife and son (One son is away in Bangalore), by providing one bed room and allowed them to use common hall and kitchen on humanitarian and medical ground with out charging a single rupee.

In Sept 2007, we visited our native place in Karnataka, and locked other 3 bedrooms apart from which has been used by Deepak Pandit and his wife Arushi Pandit by showing blind faith and trust and handed over the keys of main entrance. When we came back from our native place, we found our other two bedrooms locks were broken and the bedrooms have been used by Mr. Deepak Pandit and Mrs.Arushi D. Pandit. When we asked about this mischief, Mr Deepak Pandit very rudely replied that we people should vacate the flat along with our belongings. We were shocked and surprised after this incident.

Then we immediately contacted Ravi Suvarna and Ravi Suvarna contacted Deepak Pandit about vacating the flat. He bluntly denied to vacate the flat and also threatened with dire consequences and that his brother Mr Ashok Pandit is a very influential political person, and Deepak Pandit himself is a Custom Officer and by virtue of his position/post he will grab our flat.

Further we approached to one/two reputed persons in the society and narrated the things, which have been going on and requested them to mediate the dispute. He refused to meet the persons and asked us to pay Rs 10 lakh otherwise he will not vacate the flat .At the same time he mentioned that we will see how he will grab our flat.

Recently we have come to know that other than his house in Juhu (no 214) Juhu Shantivan co-operative Housing Society, building No 13, Gulmohar Cross Road No 6, Andheri (W), he has got one house at Takur Complex, Kandivili (E), and one at Andheri (E). He has rented out all these houses and took shelter at our place on sympathetic/humanitarian grounds.

We have approached the Oshiwara Police and lodged written complaints dated 4/10/07 and 28/02/08 but to no avail. Police have threatened to arrest our grand daughter if she doesn't vacate the house and she was forced to leave the house at 0400 AM on 05/10/07(By SI Gaikwad, Kadam on the instruction of the PI Sonawane of Oshiwada Police Station). As we are old aged and can not run from pillar to post, I kindly request you to Publish this issue because this kind of acts by people by misusing the legal provisions to their advantage and grabbing only shelter of senior citizens by taking the help of police and security staff of the building. This is nothing but breach of trust and they know that if it goes to court it will take years together. These kind of issues should be debated and people should be educated about this kind of offences/crimes (misuse of legal provisions) which were probably made to safeguard poor tenants

Yours sincerely,

Mr. & Mrs. K. Gopal Rao
76/41,14th cross, Padmanabha Nagar,
Bangalore-70
Cell No 09343952727
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