Kaagazaat

Tenant's Rent Tender Letter

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Price: Free, always.
Stamp duty: No stamp duty is payable on a notice or letter of this kind: it creates or transfers no right.
Registration: Not registrable: a notice or letter is not an instrument the Registration Act, 1908 requires to be registered.
Witnesses: No witness is needed; the sender signs alone.

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Also called

rent tender letter
landlord refusing rent
landlord not accepting rent
rent offer letter
proof of readiness to pay rent
kiraya lene se inkar
kiraya jama karwane ka patra

When you need it

Use this when you are ready to pay the rent but the landlord will not take it, will not give a receipt, has gone silent, or has stopped giving a bank account or address to pay into. The letter puts on record that you offered the rent in full and on time, how you offered it, and what happened, so that a later claim that you did not pay can be answered.

It matters because unpaid rent is the commonest ground a landlord uses to ask for eviction, and a tenant who can show an honest offer to pay is in a far better position than one who simply stopped paying. Keep paying or offering the rent every month, not only once, and keep the proof of each offer: the cheque copy, the bank transfer record, the postal receipt. Both of Punjab's rent laws provide for what a tenant may do when a landlord refuses rent, such as depositing it with the Rent Controller or the court, but the conditions, the forms and the steps before depositing differ. Punjab runs two rent laws, the Punjab Rent Act, 1995 and the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949, split by the date of the letting. The letter does not state which governs your tenancy; it records which one you understand to apply. Ask a lawyer before you start depositing rent. Not for: a dispute about how much rent is due (use a reply to the landlord's notice); a landlord who has asked for the home back (use the Tenant Reply to an Eviction Notice).

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

No stamp duty is payable on a notice or letter of this kind: it creates or transfers no right. The cost is only the postage or courier charge.

Registration

Not registrable: a notice or letter is not an instrument the Registration Act, 1908 requires to be registered.

Notarisation

Not required. What matters is proof that it was sent and received: keep the postal receipt and tracking record, or a signed acknowledgement of delivery.

Witnesses

No witness is needed; the sender signs alone. A witness to a hand delivery is useful if delivery may later be disputed.

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TENANT’S RENT TENDER LETTER

Date: 2 April 2026

By: Registered post

To: Harpreet Singh, House No. 45, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh

From: Aarav Sharma, Flat 804, Maya Garden City, Zirakpur, Punjab

Subject: offer of rent for the home at Flat 804, Maya Garden City, Zirakpur, Punjab

1. I am your tenant at the home at Flat 804, Maya Garden City, Zirakpur, Punjab since 1 April 2026, at a rent of ₹30,000 (Rupees Thirty Thousand only) a month.

2. I offer you the rent of ₹60,000 (Rupees Sixty Thousand only) for September and October 2026, by a cheque enclosed with this letter. The money is ready and I offer it in full.

3. When I tried to pay, this happened: On 5 September 2026 you refused to take my cheque at your house and said you wanted the home back. On 6 September your bank account refused my transfer..

4. Please accept the rent and give me a receipt. If you want it paid to a different bank account or address, please tell me in writing.

5. I have not withheld the rent. I am ready and willing to pay it every month as it falls due. If any rent remains unpaid, that is only because you have not accepted it or told me where to pay it.

6. If you do not accept the rent within 7 days of receiving this letter, I will consider sending it by money order or depositing it with the court or authority that decides rent matters, as the law governing this tenancy allows, which I understand to be the Punjab Rent Act, 1995. I will tell you in writing when I do. Rent for later months will be offered in the same way.

7. This letter does not give up any of my rights as a tenant. I am keeping a copy and the proof of how it was sent.

Signature

______________________________
Signature
Tenant: Aarav Sharma
Place: ____________________
Date: 2 April 2026

Questions about this document

Does the Tenant's Rent Tender Letter need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

No stamp duty is payable on a notice or letter of this kind: it creates or transfers no right.

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Does the Tenant's Rent Tender Letter need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Not registrable: a notice or letter is not an instrument the Registration Act, 1908 requires to be registered.

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What does the Tenant's Rent Tender Letter cost on Kaagazaat?

Free, always.

Does the Tenant's Rent Tender Letter need witnesses?

No witness is needed; the sender signs alone.

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