Does the tenant of a residential place risk any legal liability if he/she pays rent in cash, at the landlord's insistence, and only gets a phone message as acknowledgement of payment (no formal receipt)? For this question, please consider that it is not fully clear what the intentions of the landlord are in asking for payment in cash and refusing issue of any formal receipt of the rent, but they vaguely mentioned something to do with "TDS" to the tenant, and more details may come to light later. The landlord is ok to sign a lease deed signed in which the amount of rent will be mentioned.
If relevant for this scenario, please consider that the rent is quite low, at around Rs. 10,000 per month. My question is if this arrangement is legally problematic from the tenant's perspective, if the tenant does not want to engage or participate in any financial or other wrongdoing but agrees to this arrangement because that's what the landlord prefers. In other words, is it possible that the tenant may be held liable for any financial concealment or wrongdoing by the landlord related to this arrangement? Thanks.
Asked 22 hours ago in Property Law
Religion: Hindu
Thank you for the answers so far. To clarify, the concern here is not that the tenant may not be able to prove that he/she has paid the rent, but whether he/she is doing anything legal wrong, or abetting any potential wrongdoing by the landlord, by agreeing to making the payment in cash and getting only the phone message as acknowledgement.
Asked 21 hours ago