Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has ordered Sandalwood actor Yash’s mother Pushpa to pay rental dues of about Rs 23 lakh to the owner of the house at Kathriguppe in Banashankari Stage III.
A division bench of Justice A S Bopanna and Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar, on Wednesday, dismissed Pushpa’s appeal and upheld a trial court’s order dated April 17.
The house owners-Dr Muniprasad and his wife Dr Vanaja had filed a petition at a City Civil and Sessions Court, which had ordered Pushpa to vacate the property within three months from the date of order and said she was also liable to pay Rs 9.60 lakh to the owners as arrears on rent from May 2013 to April 15, 2015, at the rate of Rs 40,000 per month, within 3 months.
The trial court had also ordered Pushpa to pay damages at the rate of Rs 40,000 per month from June 8, 2015, till the date of handing over vacant possession of the house.
According to the trial court order, Yash’s mother Pushpa had entered into the agreement with Dr Muniprasad on October 11, 2010, on a monthly rent of Rs 40,000 for a period of 11 months and had paid Rs 4 lakh towards security deposit. But the house owners alleged that Pushpa was a chronic defaulter in paying rents and she had also failed to pay enhanced rent.
The owners said that she had also used the house for non-residential purposes and opened her son’s office in the house, erected huge cut-outs in front of the house in violation of the rental agreement. She was also running chit fund business illegally.
