Smt. Abnash Rani Suri vs Smt. Santosh Chaudhary on 5 September, 2011
"Ownership of the property which is the subjectmatter of
tenancy is certainly a larger estate than the tenancy itself and naturally
larger than the subtenancy. If the subtenant acquires the entire
interest of the owner in the whole of the estate forming the subject
matter of subtenancy, the subtenancy merges into ownership and the
estate of subtenant stands enlarged into that of a full owner. The sub
tenant cannot be the owner and the subtenant both at the same time.
Of course, the situation would have been different if the subtenant
would not have acquired the entire estate of the owner or the
ownership interest in the entire estate forming subjectmatter of sub
lease, as was the case in Badri Narain Jha an others vs. Rameshwar
Dayal Singh and others, AIR 1951 SC 186 or in Shaikh Faqir Baksh v.
Murli Dhar and others, AIR 1931 PC 63.