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1 - 8 of 8 (0.19 seconds)Sarla Ahuja vs United India Insurance Company Ltd on 27 October, 1998
It is settled principle that it is not for the tenant to dictate
terms to the landlord as to how he can adjust himself as as to which
portion of the tenanted premises he is to set up his business. Only a
prima facie case is to be taken into consideration by the Rent Controller
to draw the presumption that the requirement is bona fide, which has been
held by the Apex Court in Sarla Ahuja Vs. United India Insurance
Company Ltd. 1999(1) PLR 805.
Dattatraya Laxman Kamble vs Abdul Rasul Moulali Kotkunde & Anr on 28 April, 1999
Rather the bona fides of the landlord is clear which has
specifically been pleaded and the fact has been admitted by the tenant that
there was a shop in possession of father of the respondent who eventually
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expired in the year 2007 and he had to vacate the said shop. The landlord
has further waited for almost a period of 5 years before filing the eviction
petition in February, 2012 and it has specifically been pleaded that
requests had been made to the tenant to vacate the premises but he has
not done so which led to the filing of the eviction petition and thus,
eviction has rightly been ordered by the Courts below. Lack of bona fide
on the part of the landlord cannot be inferred, as has been held by the
Apex Court in Dattatraya Laxman Kamble Vs. Abdul Rasul Moulali
Kotkune 1999(4) SCC 1 wherein the Apex Court had allowed the appeal
of the landlord as the High Court had came to the conclusion that
landlord did not have the necessary experience to start the business of
electrical goods. It was held that there was a jurisdictional error in
upsetting the factual findings merely by an individual view by the Judge
of the High Court about the business venture which was unsupportable in
law. The Rent Act further provides that reoccupation of a building can
always be asked for by the tenant and he can recover the possession of the
building after the shop is vacated if the landlord does not occupy the
building. Thus, it is a safeguard which is provided. In such
circumstances, the bona fides of the landlord who had retired as Assistant
Manager cannot be questioned by the tenant.
Uday Shankar Upadhyay & Ors vs Naveen Maheshwari on 18 November, 2009
Reliance is also rightly been placed
upon the judgment in Uday Shankar Upadhyay (supra) wherein also, it
has been held that shops and businesses on the ground-floor being better
located therefore, it is not for the Court to tell as to which floor the
landlord should do his business. The argument, thus, raised that the
nephew was keeping the first-floor of the shop in dispute and therefore,
the landlord should shift there, is without any basis. Merely because the
tenant is carrying business since 1995 would not entitle him to continue
in the premises for all times to come.
D. Sasi Kumar vs Soundararajan on 23 September, 2019
The same view was also taken in Boorugu Mahadev & sons vs. Srigiri
(2016) 3 SCC 343 and D. Sasi Kumar Vs. Soundararajan 2019 (9)
SCC 282.
Section 116 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 [Entire Act]
Hindustan Petroleum Corpn. Ltd. vs Dilbahar Singh on 27 August, 2014
The Apex Court in a judgment rendered by the Constitution
Bench in Hindustan Petrolium Corporation Ltd. Vs. Dilbahar Singh
2014 (8) SCC 78 has held that revisional powers are not like appellate
powers and only the legality and propriety of the orders are to be seen.
Inderjit Sharma vs Moti Lal on 28 April, 2009
Counsel for the petitioners has vehemently contended that the
landlord had stated that he had not occupied any non-residential unit and
had not vacated any such type of premises or had sold any such building
within the Municipal Council, Kapurthala. It is, accordingly, contended that
as per the affidavit filed by him and in the cross-examination he had
admitted that he had vacated another premises in April, 2007 and therefore,
once he had not come to the Court with clean hands, ejectment application
was liable to be dismissed. Reliance is placed upon the judgment passed in
Inderjit Sharma Vs. Moti Lal 2009 (4) PLR 85 to contend that once the
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bona fides were not there, ejectment petition was liable to be dismissed
on this ground. It is further contended that there was no bona fide
necessity since he had retired in the year 2000 and the petition was filed
on 15.02.2012 and thus, he did not require the premises in question and in
the alternative, space on the first-floor of the shop was also available.
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