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Taj Mahal Mumbai gets an eviction notice

India is easily one of the toughest places on the planet to do business.We seem to live in a Alice in Wonderland kind of environment.

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Though Taj Mahal hotel’s 99-year lease ended in 2001-02, Mumbai Port Trust sent it an eviction notice on March 12, 2012. IHC is learnt to have filed a suit in the Bombay High Court, seeking lease renewal. The trust recently filed an affidavit in the court and the matter is likely to come for hearing in February.

A senior port trust official said the notice was sent because the firm committed breaches of lease terms, such as unauthorised construction, change of land usage agreements and rental arrears. He said the port trust indicated “its intention to initiate proceedings for eviction and recovery of arrears under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971, if IHC failed to hand over the premises within six months of notice period”. Mumbai Port Trust, one of India’s oldest ports, is dealing with lease issues with around 300 properties, both commercial and residential, in its area.

The Taj Mahal hotel has a three-part lease with the port trust. One parcel of land was let out for 99 years from November 1, 1900, another for the same period from August 1, 1902. The last part of the hotel land was let out from May 2, 1969, to October 31, 1999. While two parts of the lease expired on October 31, 1999, the third ended on July 31, 2001.

The two parties have been engaged in a tussle over rent renewal for over a decade. In September 2006, a division bench of Bombay HC had decided a rent of Rs 2.16 crore a month. After the lease expiry, the port trust is not raising any bill towards rent. Instead, it is “raising bills as compensation towards wrongful continued occupation of the premises, according to its policy applicable to all other similarly placed entities”. The port trust alleged a part of overdue rent payment also needed to be recovered

 

 

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