The Arkansas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a Little Rock landlord

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has filed a lawsuit against a landlord named Imran Bohra of Little Rock.

In January the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette did an expose on Bohra, but Seven-On-Your-Side first warned you about him eight years ago.

"I've got some concerns from some of your tenants,” we tried to ask Bohra in 2011. “Can I ask you about them?" He didn't want to talk with Seven-On-Your-Side back in 2011 and he hasn't been available to talk to us now.

On Monday, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed the lawsuit alleging he rents properties to people after they have been found unfit to live in.

In February of last year inspectors found five pages worth of problems at a home on Wolfe Street in Little Rock. Less than two months later Bohra rented it out for $550.00 a month. A home that failed inspection in June on Poplar Street in North Little Rock was also rented out by Bohra six months later.

Five other Little Rock properties are referenced in the lawsuit. All of them were found to have life safety issues and all of them were rented soon after by Bohra.

The Attorney General's lawsuit states, “Little Rock and North Little Rock prohibit the leasing of a property with an existing code violation unless the landlord abates the code violation. In as much as the code protects the health and safety of tenants, it is unconscionable to lease properties that harbor existing code violations.”

Seven-On-Your-Side visited Bohra's home and no one answered the door. We've learned in the past he's not likely to do interviews.

"Do you know you have tenants without running water?” we asked as he ran away in 2011. “You're running, but the water in some of your properties aren't running."

The Attorney General is seeking restitution for tenants and to stop Bohra from renting substandard properties. He has around 150 rental properties in Pulaski county.

Air date: August 6th, 2019