RENT ACT RELATED SUIT
To regulate rental housing, the Maharashtra state government passed the Maharashtra Rent Control Bill, 1999, and the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, came into effect on March 31, 2000. The Act aims ‘to unify and consolidate’ rental housing in the state and ‘for encouraging the construction of new houses by assuring a fair return on investment (RoI) by landlords’. After coming into effect, the Act replaced the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, the Hyderabad Houses (Rent, Eviction and Lease) Control Act, 1954 and the Central Provinces and Berar Regulation of Letting of Accommodation Act, 1946.