Practice area
Tenancy disputes in Chennai
Rent, deposit, repairs and vacating — and, before any of them, the question of which forum your tenancy belongs in. Follow the flow below to find the situation closest to yours.
Renting of houses and commercial premises, governed since 2019 by the Tamil Nadu Regulation of Rights and Responsibilities of Landlords and Tenants Act, 2017, and decided by the Rent Court rather than an ordinary civil court.
The matters handled
- Eviction suit
- Recovering possession of premises through the Rent Court, on the grounds the Act allows — never by changing locks or cutting supply.
- Arrears of rent
- Recovering rent that has not been paid, together with what the Act allows where a tenant holds over after the tenancy ends.
- Deposit and advance
- Recovering a security deposit withheld after vacating, or resisting a deduction that was never agreed.
- Tenancy registration
- Registering a tenancy with the Rent Authority, and dealing with the consequences where it was never registered.
- RLTOP application (Rent Court)
- An application to the Rent Court under the 2017 Act — rent, deposit, eviction or essential services, for a registered tenancy.
Acting for either side
This practice appears for landlords and for tenants. The Act was written to hold both to the same process, and the analysis is identical from either chair: what the agreement says, whether it was registered, what the payment record shows, and which forum can therefore hear it.
How long it takes
The Rent Court route was designed to be quicker than a civil suit, which is much of the point of the 2017 Act. How much quicker depends on the court’s docket and on whether the forum itself is contested at the threshold.
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