Dharamvir Singh vs Knewton Academy Softech Solution Pvt ... on 11 December, 2025
"31. We find that this Court has in several cases taken
judicial notice of the factum of increase of rent and
made awards of mesne profits and damages. Noteworthy
in this behalf is a judicial pronouncement of the Division
Bench reported at (supra) entitled Vinod Kumar v.
Bakshi Sachdev. This judgment was delivered by a
Division Bench of which one of us (Dr. M.K. Sharma,
J.) had delivered the judgment. It was held as under: "21.
The learned Counsel for the appellants also urged before
us that the learned Trial Court was not justified in taking
a judicial notice of the fact of increase of rents like the
suit property and also in providing Rs. 10,000/- per
month as fair amount towards damages/mesne profits in
favor of the plaintiff. It is true that no substantial
evidence has been led by the plaintiff in respect of the
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increase of rent in the properties like that of the suit
property. However, it is a well known fact that the
amount of rent for various properties in and around
Delhi has been rising staggeringly and we cannot see
why such judicial notice could not be taken of the fact
about such increase of rents in the premises in and
around Delhi which is a city of growing importance
being the capital of the country which is a matter of
public history. At this stage we may appropriately refer
to the Court making judicial notice of the increase of
price of land rapidly in the urban areas in connection
with the land acquisition matters.