India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir in its entirety, and India discourages any intervention or criticism in the dispute. The two countries fought two of their three wars since independence in 1947 over Kashmir.
A UN official confirmed Friday that the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan was asked to vacate the bungalow.
"No reason was given. We were asked to vacate the bungalow," Maj. Nicholas Diaz said Friday at the bungalow, which is around the corner from the Supreme Court in a coveted part of central Delhi.
A foreign ministry spokesman said the move was in line with efforts to rationalize the UN body's presence in India.
The decision was "consistent with India's long-standing view that UNMOGIP has outlived its relevance," said Syed Akbaruddin, external affairs ministry spokesman.
India maintains that the UN agency had no role to play after India and Pakistan signed a landmark agreement in 1972 on finding a bilateral solution to their dispute over Kashmir.
Diaz said a UN Security Council resolution calls for the body to monitor and observe the border and report violations of a ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan.
India has never been comfortable with the presence of the UN body overseeing its borders and has often said that no third party can have a role in resolving the dispute over Kashmir.
"We have at best tolerated them because this is one of those byproducts of history," said Hardeep Singh Puri, a former permanent representative of India to the UN.
"This was an issue of rationalizing. I don't know who had given them this largesse of free accommodation. They were not even paying normal rent for it, let alone market rent," he said.
Diaz said the UN observer group has started looking for new office space to rent.
Relations between India and Pakistan were frozen after an attack on Mumbai in 2008 in which Pakistani terrorists killed 166 people. A mild thaw since then has helped trade and people-to-people links, but the Kashmir dispute is far from resolution.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a tough line in his election campaign on Pakistan's role in sponsoring terror attacks in India. He softened his stand somewhat and invited Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to India for his inaugural.
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