There has been a trend among anti socials elements and criminals to gather information required by them and settle in Chennai by taking a rental accommodation and carry out their unlawful and criminal activities. People from the extremist’s organization also take rental accommodations to carry out their sinister activities. To avoid this happening in Chennai the Police department has proposed a plan that all the rental occupants should register themselves in the nearest police station. The system has been designed in such a way that is it very extremely simple. People need not fear about this. The house owners who are renting out their property should inform the nearest Police station within 15 days of renting out. As a step towards creating a database of tenants in Chennai, the city police issues tenant information forms to house owners. Completed forms with tenant details, including a passport-sized photograph, should be submitted by owners at police stations within 60 days. This process has come into effect from December 1st 2013. Other details like rental particulars, duration are not required. All the details will be registered and will be available in the Assistant Commissioners offices.
The tenant information form, available in Tamil and English, can be downloaded from the online applications section of the Tamil Nadu police website. “The house owners can submit the completed forms in person or even send them through post or courier. The information collected will remain confidential, under the supervision of the deputy commissioner of the police district concerned,” A Police officer said.
House owners who rent property to tenants after the specified 60-day period can submit the forms 15 days after the rental agreement is processed. House owners who fail to submit the forms will face legal action under Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of IPC, sources said.
The system is already in vogue in several big cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta and Pune.
The information passed on to the police station will be duly verified physically and those who are faking their previous place of stay won’t be able to evade the radar,” he said.
The forms can be obtained from the police station or can be downloaded from the Online Applications section of http://www.tnpolice.gov.in or http://www.tnpolice.gov.in/Tenants_License.html
You can download the forms here