When one thinks brute force equates justice, principles can’t be at the cost of convenience, financial power overrides equality & equity, practicality trumps law & exploiting loopholes the order of the day is when one only sees injustice to the residents & nothing else.
By residents I mean, the inter-state migrants who came to study or work and only want a home in a decent society because they have lived in one since birth.
When I see “residents” of a Cooperative Housing Society using mob mentality to ban tenants, threaten the person (landlord) who may protect them and should now abandon them – (not married only means “pg” and “bachelors”)
I wonder…
St. Anthony’s Co-operative Society v. The Secretary (Co-operation and Textile Department)
The Supreme Court noted that co-operative societies provide an essential amenity to citizens – namely the facility of housing. The Court recognized that the right to housing is itself read into Article 21. Since membership to the society has a bearing upon the ownership, use, or enjoyment of property, restricting membership restricts full enjoyment of property.
There are a lot of case laws and a lot less common sense and humanity.
Pavement dwellers have the right to sleep on the pavement but bachelors are not allowed in society.
You know why? Because girls play volleyball in society and they wear shorts (the shorts is silent – accusation).
Funny thing is – this point was taken up by a female advocate, an ex-law student of the same university from which I studied and where these girls were studying before covid.
If these girls come back to classroom, I will tell them to forget Article 14 and focus on business.
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In India, the mere presence of female tenants is being termed as “Nuisance”.
These were the words in reply to legal notice which surprised me: “They start using garden as a playground which is creating nuisance and noise until late evening”.
The resentment against Bachelors as Paying Guests is certainly increasing.
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If you listen to legal arguments (excuse) such as: “Commercial activity not allowed”, just check the unregistered resolution they passed and compare it with the registered bye-laws.
In a case, resolution 13B was used in the entire reply to a legal notice. This resolution had two words:
“Families only”.
Formula:
Married aunties on lease agreement = “residential activity”
Unmarried girls on lease agreement = “commercial activity”
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The term “pg girls” is such an anonymous degradation. They have a rent agreement is an ignored fact.
Because on the floor, it brings to my mind 5 years of law college where all the PG news I used to hear, due to which, I had to leave my leased apartment because PGs were being removed.
There were times when I cried due to the exhaustion of daily attendance, assignments, exams and finding a safe, budget-friendly flat (not home) and shifting, readjusting to life again and again.
But the way these two words are often said by society members in a sentence, like a degradation, like having to see something unpleasant in their society, every day.
They don’t have names.
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In a case, Registered Bye-Laws no. 49 to 55 allowed tenants. They did not discriminate. Because they were legally registered papers. And legally, you cannot go against the supreme law of the land (have you heard of the Constitution)?
Outside however, I think, you can. As long as you have money and time.
Not giving home to bachelors (spinsters here but she is included in he…) against Article 15 in India is used as a valid argument by a female advocate in a 5-page reply.
Moral of the story: “Families only” – They are not dangerous.
They don’t threaten their daughters.
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