HIV-positive thrown out by landlord

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HIV-positive thrown out by landlord

Tuesday November 1 2005 14:06 IST

UDUPI: When the founder of Positive People's Network `Deepa Jyothi',

Shanti Noronha, who is also HIV positive, was attending the fifth

International AIDS India Conference at Chennai, the landlord of her

office in Ajjarkad, Udupi, opened it with a duplicate key and took

her valuable documents and other materials. He also changed the

locks.

He gave the excuse that a cheque for Rs 4,500 issued by her as 45

days rent bounced, owing to insufficient funds in her account. But

Shanthi who is back from the conference, claims that she has a

deposit of Rs 10,000 with the landlord Radhakrishna Nayak and an

agreement for 11 months.

She put down the cheque bounce to delay in clearing a cheque for Rs

93,000 issued to her by the Indian Network of Positive People.

" I was told that the landlord had removed our notice board and name

plate. On Saturday night he disposed off everything from the office.

He has even stolen the copy of my lease agreement,'' Shanthi

said. " When I contacted the landlord personally, he said that they

are not here for social service. They have rented out the house to

another party'', she added.

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