Sundara Rajan And Anr. vs Sundaramoorthy on 11 January, 1993
7. The other decision cited by the learned Counsel for the defendant, viz., Lakshmi Narayan Guin v. Niranjan Modak does not actually deal with the question of waiver at all. There was also no claim at all to purchase the suit site. The case arose under West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act. How far the said Act is similar to the abovesaid Tamil Nadu City Tenants Protection Act is also not quite clear since the said Act as such was not produced before me. However, paragraphs 6 to 9 of the said judgment were relied on by the said counsel. In these paragraphs, no doubt, it was observed that where the decree for eviction is passed by the trial Court against the tenant under the provisions of the Transfer of Property Act and the statute giving protection to tenants against eviction is extended to the concerned area during the pendency of appeal against the decree for eviction, the appellate court is bound to take into account the change of law and extend its benefits to the tenant and consequently set aside the decree of the trial court and dismiss the suit. Section 13 of the said West Bengal Act is said to provide for a qualified protection to the tenant against eviction inasmuch as it injuncts the court from passing an order or decree in landlord's suit for recovery of possession except on the limited grounds detailed in Sub-section (1) thereof and that Sub-section (6) therein provides that no suit for the recovery of possession of any of the grounds mentioned in Sub-section (1) can be filed by the landlord unless he has given to the tenant one month's notice expiring with the month of tenancy. The High Court therein found that the notice for eviction given was only of less than one month and that, therefore, there was no compliance with the abovesaid Section 13(6). Consequently, the High Court held that the suit was incompetent. The said decision of the High Court was no doubt approved by the Supreme Court. But, as already stated by me, the question of waiver was not considered at all by the Supreme Court in the said case, nor was there any claim to purchase the suit site in the said case. So, that decision will have no application to the abovesaid question posed by me, based on the claim for purchase of the suit site, made by the defendant.