NRI Legal Services

Landlord-tenant disputes assume a different and more troublesome shape when the landlord in question happens to be an NRI . Distance from the location, inability to travel frequently to check on tenancy situations and the difficulty in finding trustworthy sources for solving these situations make the issue of landlord tenant disputes one of the biggest banes for NRIs. Keeping this in mind, the Punjab Government introduced an amendment in its ‘East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949’ in the year 2001. This was prompted by the awareness of the urgency and need in the case of NRIs to get their property vacated if they decide to come back to their hometowns. More often than not, NRIs who have rented out their properties with the intention of keeping the property safe while they are out of India, find themselves in a quagmire when it comes to getting the same vacated. Section 13 B, the Amendment introduced to the original Act, recognises all this and seeks to make it more conve