Bakht v. Akhtar
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
Final judgment reversed without costs and petition dismissed.
Tenant appellant Shirin Akhtar is the daughter-in-law of tenants Afruz Bakht and Quazi Z. Begum, the estranged wife of tenant Mohammad J. Bakht, and the sister-in-law of landlords. Following their marriage, appellant and her husband moved into the subject premises, already occupied by appellant’s parents-in-law. When the marriage broke up, appellant obtained two orders of protection against her husband, barring her husband from the premises. None of the tenants herein have a lease or has ever paid…
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