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If you have time, please have a look:The story goes like this. We come from a very small town in India where political influence is very strong. Political parties control almost every state afairs and not everyone is brave enough to speak up.
We had a small shop on rent for almost 30 years. In the 90s, the owner used to give us rent receipts. By the way, owner is a scumbag with affiliation to different political parties. During 2007 due to road expansion, the shop got demolished ( although it wasn’t supposed to). The owner with the help of his political connections got it demolished so that he can get the huge compensation from the central government which he got. We didn’t get anything although the shop construction was done completely by us. It was discussed in the local small business association that all the tenants will get shops or a portion of money so that they can continue their livelihood.
However, after the demolition the owner gave us a shop which was not 1/3 rd of the previous shops size & stopped taking rents or disagreed to gave us ownership. Although again all the interior construction was done by us. His plan to give the shop first and then with the help of local political goons, he would throw us away. But that didn’t happen due to the shift in some political dynamics. But has been threatening us here and there. We are not proactively doing any case since we don’t have any proof or don’t want to create any problems.
Owner is now asking a ridiculously high price to transfer the ownership. So from 2008 till today no rent has been collected or any promise of settling the matter. The owner is not able to do anything politicalally since the dynamics has changed a bit but not in out favour.
Legal complication: the land was in owners name, the shop was constructed by us. The total compensation was collected by the owner after the demolition which shouldn’t be done in the first place. Later we got a small shop and again interior construction was done by us.
Questions:
1. Is there anyway to prove that the shop was demolished unnecessaryily in the first place?
2. Is there a way to get the ownership?
3. Whats our options legally?
Any other comments are welcome.
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