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India.com
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Actress Meena Kumari bought 2.5-acre plot in Mumbai's Pali Hill in 1959; here's why the property is going viral
Director Kamal Amrohi, who has delivered back-to-back hits like Mahal, Pakeezah, Daaera, was married to Meena Kumari. They met during the filming of 1952's Tamasha. Veteran actor Ashok Kumar introduced them. They fell in love and married in the same year. Their love story has been discussed several times in the past, and it has now again come into the news for a reason. When they were alive, Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi purchased a land measuring over 11,000 square yards at Pali Hill in Bandra. It was priced around Rs 5 lac at that time. The land was leased to the Cozihome Co-operative Housing Society Limited in 1966, who built five buildings at a rent of Rs 8,835 per month. 162 families In 1990, Amrohi terminated the lease agreement, claiming that the society had failed to pay the agreed rent and had defaulted in payments. The society said they paid less rent because some of the land did not belong to the owner. In 1991, Kamal Amrohi filed a suit to vacate the land as the rent was outstanding. The outstanding rent was Rs 66,060. Amrohi died two years after filing the case, but his children continued the legal battle. On April 23, 2025, the Small Cause Court of Bandra gave its verdict in favour of Kamal Amrohi's son, builder Tajdar Amrohi and Arham Land Developers. Tajdar said that they won the case. The society, with 162 families, has been asked to vacate the place within six months after a 33-year-long legal battle.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Relief to Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari's kin as Mumbai court orders society to evict leased land
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Mumbai: In a legal dispute spanning over three decades, a local court here has ordered a housing society to evict the land it had leased in 1966 from yesteryear Bollywood couple Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari in Bandra. The appellate bench of the Court of Small Causes in Bandra has ruled in favour of Amrohi's son, Tajdar Amrohi, and ordered the 162-member society to hand over possession of the land in the posh Pali Hill locality within six order was passed on April Chief Judge Ashish Ayachit and Judge D R Mali held that the society failed to pay the contractual rent regularly and has hence committed default."The society has consciously committed a breach of the covenants of the indenture of lease regarding the payment of contractual rent," the order said."The defendant society was not ready and willing to pay the arrears of rent, and they failed to comply with the provision of section 12(3) of the Bombay Rent Act. Therefore, the plaintiffs (Amrohi) are entitled to a decree of eviction," it Kumari married Amrohi in 1952, and the couple purchased the land measuring over 11,000 square yards at Pali Hill in suburban Bandra in land was leased to the Cozihome Co-operative Housing Society Limited in 1966 for the construction of buildings at a rent of Rs 8,835 per 1990, Amrohi terminated the lease agreement , claiming that the society had failed to pay the agreed rent and had defaulted in payments.A year later, he filed a suit seeking eviction of the society and possession of the October 2007, the Court of Small Causes in Bandra passed an order in favour of Amrohi and passed a decree of eviction against the society, which challenged the order before the appellate appellate bench has held that the trial court's order of eviction was "proper and correct".The society has been ordered to hand over possession of the land within six society is planning to challenge this order before the Bombay High Court.
Hindustan Times
26-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
Relief to Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari's kin as local court orders society to evict leased land
Mumbai, In a legal dispute spanning over three decades, a local court here has ordered a housing society to evict the land it had leased in 1966 from yesteryear Bollywood couple Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari in Bandra. The appellate bench of the Court of Small Causes in Bandra has ruled in favour of Amrohi's son, Tajdar Amrohi, and ordered the 162-member society to hand over possession of the land in the posh Pali Hill locality within six months. The order was passed on April 23. Additional Chief Judge Ashish Ayachit and Judge D R Mali held that the society failed to pay the contractual rent regularly and has hence committed default. "The society has consciously committed a breach of the covenants of the indenture of lease regarding the payment of contractual rent," the order said. "The defendant society was not ready and willing to pay the arrears of rent, and they failed to comply with the provision of section 12 of the Bombay Rent Act. Therefore, the plaintiffs are entitled to a decree of eviction," it said. Meena Kumari married Amrohi in 1952, and the couple purchased the land measuring over 11,000 square yards at Pali Hill in suburban Bandra in 1959. The land was leased to the Cozihome Co-operative Housing Society Limited in 1966 for the construction of buildings at a rent of ₹8,835 per month. In 1990, Amrohi terminated the lease agreement, claiming that the society had failed to pay the agreed rent and had defaulted in payments. A year later, he filed a suit seeking eviction of the society and possession of the land. In October 2007, the Court of Small Causes in Bandra passed an order in favour of Amrohi and passed a decree of eviction against the society, which challenged the order before the appellate bench. The appellate bench has held that the trial court's order of eviction was "proper and correct". The society has been ordered to hand over possession of the land within six months. The society is planning to challenge this order before the Bombay High Court.
