Property house owners, landlords in Srinagar directed to furnish tenant particulars inside 10 days – The Dispatch

Non-verification will result in FIR in opposition to landlord

SRINAGAR: Coming shut on the heels of the busting of a tough commerce in Bagh-e-Mehtab locality, District Justice of the Peace Srinagar on Wednesday ordered the property house owners/landlords to furnish particulars of tenants placing up within the properties anyplace within the district, inside a interval of ten days.

Citing a letter by Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar the District Justice of the Peace stated that the current incident in Bagh-e-Mehtab has necessitated conducting the verification of the tenants because the district has a great variety of individuals from different locations placing up all throughout.

“Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, vide his letter No. 01-23/12741-42 dated: 03-4-2023 and No. CS/01-23/12910-12, dated: 04-04.2023 has reported that Srinagar being a capital metropolis, a great variety of individuals from different locations are placing up within the District Srinagar within the rented lodging.

Investigation in a number of incidents of social crime together with theft/housebreaking has revealed that the individuals concerned in such actions have been staying as tenants in Srinagar metropolis which poses a hazard to atypical Residents. On April, third, 2023 an incident of immoral trafficking got here to the fore within the Bagh-i-Mehtab space of Srinagar metropolis falling throughout the jurisdiction P/S Channapora. Through the preliminary investigations it has been divulged that accused individuals hail from outdoors of District Srinagar and had employed a personal home within the stated space.

Additional, the house-owner, the place the illicit racket was busted, had not carried out tenant verification and whereas, the surfacing of the racket has evoked outrage among the many public circles having an inclination to turn into a regulation and order difficulty thus necessitating setting up measures for stopping such illicit/immoral actions”, reads the content material of the order.

“Whereas repeatedly it has additionally been dropped at the discover of the undersigned that few incidents of acid assault/eve teasing have occurred within the current previous within the District that are in flip damaging the social cloth of society thus calling for placing the deterrence measures in place. SSP, Srinagar vide above talked about communication/s has requested that there’s an imminent have to conduct verification of tenants staying in rented lodging in numerous elements of town as there have been situations of social crimes and illicit actions”, it reads.

“Whereas, SSP, Srinagar vide above-mentioned communication/s has requested that there’s an imminent have to conduct verification of tenants staying in rented lodging in numerous elements of town as there have been situations of social crimes and illicit actions. It’s obligatory that some steps are taken to make the landlords, and property house owners accountable earlier than renting out or making obtainable their premises to tenants, in order that such criminals / anti-social /anti-national parts within the guise of tenants don’t succeed within the Fee of crime within the Group.”

“Whereas, I think about the risk being posed by such anti-social parts as an imminent apprehended hazard to public security and safety that warrants fast preventive measures”, the order reads.

“Now, due to this fact, for the explanations acknowledged within the previous paras, and in train of powers vested in me beneath numerous Sections of Cr.P.C, I, District Justice of the Peace, Srinagar do hereby order and require all landlords, house owners of properties, lawyer holders, individuals in-charge of premises in any capability (hereafter known as as constructing house owners) positioned in all the jurisdiction of District Srinagar to conform strictly with the next instructions: a) All Constructing Homeowners shall after the issuance of this order and inside ten days of letting/ sub-letting / renting out his/her home or half thereof to any tenant(s), submit with out fail the detailed particulars of the tenant(s) to be signed by each the proprietor and the tenant(s) to the involved Police Station, both in particular person or by registered publish addressed to the involved Station Home Officer; b) The Constructing Homeowners who’ve already let/sub-let/rented out their home(s) or half(s) thereof to any tenant on any date previous to issuance of this order, shall inside ten days after the issuance of this order submit with out fail the detailed particulars of the tenants to the involved police station; c) All preparations of letting or sub-letting the property like “paying Visitor” tenants and many others, shall be coated by this order; d) Each SHO in Srinagar District shall preserve a separate register for such function.”

“This order shall come into pressure with fast impact and it shall stay in pressure for a interval of 60 days, until withdrawn earlier. Any violation of this order shall invite punitive motion beneath Part 188 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 and different related sections of the Cr.P.C”, reads the order including the Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar will implement this order.