The Manikpur police in Vasai West, who operate out of the station's premises at the Moti Niwas Co-operative Housing Society, have not paid rent to landlord Nandkumar Kanhaiyalal Jain since 1991. According to Jain, the verbally agreed to lease was supposed to last only for six months. Multiple letters to the Mantralaya and police department in the past 29 years have had zero effect on the authorities, Jain said.

According to Jain, in 1991, his father was convinced by a police inspector, SR Shinde, and a local politician to give his six galas (shops) on the ground floor of the housing society to run the police station for six-seven months. He was promised housing rent as per the government's rate. "Initially my father was not ready but after the intervention of a local politician, he agreed on July 17, 1991, to give the six galas to start the Manikpur police station. Shinde, who worked in the establishment department in the force, had been trying to convince my father since 1988. The possession of the property was given to Shinde on August 28, 1991, to run a police station," Jain told mid-day.