CARETAKER AND PERMISSIVE OCCUPATION AGREEMENT
(RAKHWALI NAMA)
A bare licence under section 52 of the Indian Easements Act, 1882.
This is NOT a lease, NOT a tenancy, NOT an agreement to sell and NOT a power of attorney. No interest in immovable property passes under it.
THIS AGREEMENT is made at Jalandhar on 3 April 2026
BETWEEN
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, son of Sardar Joginder Singh Sandhu, a Non-Resident Indian holding an Indian passport, holding passport No. Z4821956, ordinarily resident at 42 Windermere Crescent, Southall, Middlesex UB1 2QT, United Kingdom, and having an address in India at House No. 118, Guru Nanak Nagar, Phagwara, District Kapurthala, Punjab 144401, PAN AFZPS4821K, contactable at gurpreet.sandhu@example.com and +44 7700 900482 (hereinafter called "the Owner", which expression shall, where more than one person is named above, mean all of them jointly and each of them severally, and shall, where the context admits, include the heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, attorneys and assigns of each of them) of the FIRST PART;
AND
Balwinder Singh, son of Shri Mohinder Singh, resident of Village Nurmahal, Tehsil Phillaur, District Jalandhar, Punjab 144039, holding Aadhaar No. XXXX XXXX 1234, mobile +91 XXXXX XXXXX, being the Owner's neighbour and long-standing family acquaintance (hereinafter called "the Caretaker") of the SECOND PART.
The Owner and the Caretaker are together called "the Parties".
RECITALS
A. The Owner is the sole and absolute owner in lawful possession of the immovable property fully described in the FIRST SCHEDULE below (hereinafter "the Property"), being a residential house situated in the revenue estate or locality of Village Kang Khurd, Tehsil Phillaur, District Jalandhar, Punjab.
B. The Owner acquired the Property by inheritance from a person who was resident in India. The Owner declares that the Property is held in conformity with the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 and with the Reserve Bank of India FED Master Direction No. 12/2015-16 (updated 6 June 2022), under which a Non-Resident Indian or an Overseas Citizen of India may acquire agricultural land, plantation property or a farm house only by inheritance and not by purchase, and may acquire other immovable property by purchase.
C. The Owner resides outside India and is therefore unable to remain physically present at the Property. The Property is presently locked, unoccupied and unattended, and is by reason of the Owner's absence exposed to encroachment, dilapidation, pilferage and unauthorised occupation.
D. The Owner desires to place the Property under the care and watch of a person of trust for its safe custody and upkeep, and the Caretaker has agreed to render such care and watch upon the terms recorded below.