Court dismisses plea by tenant against bank

NEW DELHI: A plea of a tenant seeking protection from being evicted from a house, which was being claimed for possession by a bank after its owner failed to pay

NEW DELHI: A plea of a tenant seeking protection from being evicted from a house, which was being claimed for possession by a bank after its owner failed to pay off debt, has been dismissed by a city court which said it was an attempt to thwart the bank’s “valid claim”.

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The court, while rejecting the application of tenant Gaurav Gupta, said it was “misuse of process of law and such frivolous litigations must be dealt with sternly and nipped in the bud itself” and slapped a cost of Rs 50,000 on him.

“I am of the considered view that the present objection application is nothing but gross abuse of the process of law and is an attempt by the respondent/ borrower in collusion with the applicant to thwart the valid claim of the bank to claim the possession of the secured asset when borrower admittedly had failed in paying off the debt,” chief metropolitan magistrate Satish Kumar Arora said.

The court while dismissing his plea also noted that Gupta had not filed on record any document showing his possession of the property in any manner.