Landlord can’t evict to tenant for 5years: SC

Tenants have a sigh of relief as on Friday the Supreme Court ordered that landlord cannot evict to occupant for minimum five years, if he or she is regularly paying rent according to the norms of agreement between the parties. This ordered came out due to a petition filed by the tenant which challenging the Allahabad High Court order for increasing the rent of the premises.
A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma said “if tenant is paying rent according to the contemporary market rates and have decided between the parties then landlord could not be permitted to take any action such as eviction against the tenant till the 5years.”
So at least for five years tenant would be free from the worry to being evicted from the occupied area, justice bench said while introducing new norms on payment and hike of rent.
The Justice bench has expressed their views due to the mounting ration of the disputes between the landlord and tenants in the country and introduced the seven new norms in a bid to decrease such kind of disputes.
The bench added that “we believe that it’s our responsibility and also mandatory to sort out such kind of the disputes so it would be helpful to reduce the ratio of landlord and tenant litigations.”
The Court said “maximum ratio of filed cases of the disputes of landlord and tenant because landlords do not get equitable rent comparatively market rate.”
“The tenant should have to hike rent according to the norms of agreement between the parties or 10% after every three years” court said.
The bench has fixed that the minor or regular maintenance should be carried out by tenants whereas the major maintenance is landlord’s responsibility.