A couple has filed a police complaint against their landlord and the local councillor. The landlord is accused of forcefully evicting the couple while the councillor is accused of orchestrating violence on the couple.

According to Asha Saklani, who lived with her husband in the rented accomodation, they could not pay the rent since April because her husband is a store keeper in a school and the schools are not open during the pandemic due to which her husband is not getting paid too. "The landlords have the right to ask for the rent but they cannot get violent with tenants for the money. We were beaten by our landlord and some men of councillor Sumendra Bohra. They threw some of our clothes, bed and utensils outside the home and threatened us not to return.

 I filed a police complaint along with the attached medical examination report of my husband and mine on Tuesday but no action has been taken so far," said Saklani. She said that they have nowhere to go and they are forced to spend their nights on the roadside.

However, the son of the landlord Deepesh Singh denied all the accusations stating that the said tenants lived there till July 31 and after that they left for their home in Rajpur. "We never pressurised them for the rent because we know what kind of crisis everyone is going through these days.

 In fact, we even waived their rent and they left their rented accommodation on their own," added Singh. This correspondent tried to contact the councillor to get his version regarding the accusations but he could not be contacted.