Ram Lal Dutt Sarkar vs Dhirendra Nath Roy on 15 December, 1942
In this state of the law the Judicial Committee delivered its opinion in Ramlal Dutt v. Dhirendra Nath . In this case the facts were that possession of 83 bighas out of a total of 1464 had not been given to the lessee when the tenancy was created. It was further found that the successive lessees had not insisted on getting back possession of that area and for more than 50 years the entire rent had been paid by the tenants, C. C. Ghose and Bartley JJ. who had delivered the judgment in the High Court, had, on a consideration of the above facts, concluded that the doctrine of suspension of rent as found in English cases could not be applied rigidly in this country. It should be regarded as a rule of justice, equity and good conscience. As the area of which possession had not been delivered was comparatively speaking very small and the full rent had been paid from a very long time without any objection, the tenant should not be allowed to hold a very large area still in his possession free of rent in perpetuity, as there was no reasonable chance of the landlord being able, at this distance of time, to deliver possession of that small area.