Legal Notice Served

Govt asked to enforce House Rent Control Act

16 April 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

A human rights organisation served a legal notice asking the government to enforce the House Rent Control Act 1991 in order to prevent the house owners in the capital from arbitrarily collecting excess rent and advances from their tenants. In the legal notice served on Thursday, the Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) also asked the government to execute the standard rent for premises fixed by Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and to frame rules as per the act. Secretaries to the cabinet division, secretariat of the prime minister's office, ministry of law, justice and parliamentary affairs, and the secretariat of the Jatiya Sangsad, and DCC mayor have been asked to reply to the legal notice within seven days.