Indore: Old lady gets back possession of her shop after 22 long years
77-year-old widow’s tenant was neither paying rent nor vacating the shop.
Indore: A 77-year-old destitute widow got justice on Wednesday as she got back the possession of her shop with the help of the district administration.
For 22 years, her family was this fight for justice. About 22 years ago, her husband had appealed to the rent control officer to get justice, but, during the process, he died. He could not get justice. Prabhakar Mahadik, of 52, Aada Bazar, had rented a shop of 77 square feet located next to his house 30 years ago to a person named Purushottam Puranik to run his family. But the person was neither paying rent nor vacating the shop.
Prabhakar had earlier appealed against this in the court of the rent control officer. After his death, his widow, Sunayana Mahadik, 77, had been making the rounds of the collector’s office for justice for many years. Recently, she met collector Manish Singh and briefed him about her problems. She said that tenant Purushottam often behaved indecently with her.
On Wednesday, on the initiative of collector Singh, the lady got justice. Fifteen days ago, the order to vacate the said shop was passed by the regional SDM, Munish Sikarwar. But Purushottam did not follow this order either. Taking action this morning, the district administration got the shop vacated and handed over the possession to Sunena Mahadik.
She said, “I have no one except my daughter. Both of us used to sit in the collector’s office for justice throughout the day. Collector Singh is no less than a messiah for the old and the destitute. The amount of thanks that can be given to him seems very small in comparison to his great deed.”
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