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2003 Supreme(AP) 1483

Andhra Pradesh High Court
Judges : P.S.NARAYANA
Adikari Rangarao - Appellant
Versus
Byreddi Tulasamma - Respondent
Decided On : 12-11-03

Headnote:

Andhra Pradesh Buildings Lease, Rent and Eviction control Act, 1960 - Section 22 – Alleged - Rent Controller - compared boundaries and all other attendant - Buildings for rent - Eviction - Petitioner desires to occupy same for her other unmarried daughters as there would be protection and assistance - Petitioner requires schedule premises bona fide and reasonable - Petitioner informed same to respondent by end that she wants schedule premises for her personal occupation - respondent promised to vacate and handover he vacant possession of schedule premises by end - But respondent did not keep up his promise - When petitioner went to schedule premises to ask respondent to vacate she came to know On enquiry about sublease and alterations made by respondent. When questioned respondent told that he would vacate as such - It was further pleaded that respondent has got three buildings of his own in Vijayawada itself and has given all these buildings for rent – Held, Eviction was order is the ground of different user - There is clear evidence and also several admissions on part of in this regard and though purpose for which petition schedule property was let out was for running saw-mill same was converted into residential portions and had been let out by raising certain super structures and not being satisfied with same tenant yet had taken a mala fide stand denying very title of landlady to a portion of property - contending that what had been let out was only with the building – Hence court do not see any reason to differ with said findings recorded by both Tribunals below and accordingly said findings are hereby confirmed – Petition dismissed

( 1 ) ADIKARI Ranga Rao, the tenant - 1st respondent in R. C. C. No. 39/86 on the file of rent Controller, Vijayawada, the Revision petitioner, died pending this Civil Revision petition and petitioners 2 to 4 are brought on record as legal representatives of the deceased tenant in C. M. P. No. 16291/2001 dated 31-7-2003. Likewise, Byreddi Tulasamma, the original landlady also died pending r. C. C. M. A. No. 68/92 on the file of Principal senior Civil Judge/appellate Authority under A. P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) control Act, 1960, in short hereinafter referred to as "act", and respondents 6 to 11 were brought on record as her legal representatives in I. A. No. 8693/96.

( 2 ) BYREDDI Tulasamma, the landlady filed r. C. C. No. 39/86 on the file of the Rent controller, Vijayawada, praying for the relief of eviction from the petition schedule property on the ground that an extent of 1500 sq. yards of site and building thereon had been let out to Adikari Ranga Rao/tenant on a monthly rent of Rs. 500/- and the said tenant committed willful default in payment of rents from 26-7-1985 upto the date of the eviction petition and that the tenant, without consent of the landlady constructed sheds in the vacant site and sub-let the same for residence to respondents 2 to 5 and that the tenant put the petition schedule property for a purpose different from the purpose for which the property was let out; that by making constructions in the vacant site, the tenant is guilty of acts of waste; and the landlady required the petition schedule property for her bona fide occupation and also on the ground that denial of title of the landlady by the tenant is not bona fide. The tenant had taken a stand that the extent let out is only 500 sq. yards of site with building thereon and the site on which the tenant made constructions in fact was not let out to him and it is only a poramboke site and the same was let out by him to respondents 2 to 5 and he had not committed any default in payment of rents and had not sub-let the premises and not guilty of acts of waste and the requirement made by the landlady for personal occupation is not at all bona fide, and in such circumstances there is no question of denying the title of the landlady at all in view of the peculiar facts and circumstances. The learned Rent Controller had ordered eviction on the grounds of denial of title not being bona fide, sub-letting the premises, use of the petition schedule property for the purpose other than the purpose for which the same was let out, by an order dated 15-6-1992. No doubt the learned Rent controller had rejected the groups of willful default, acts of waste and requirement for personal occupation. Aggrieved by the same, the tenant filed R. C. C. M. A. No. 68/92 on the file of Principal Senior Civil Judge/appellate authority, Vijayawada, and as aforesaid, during the pendency of the appeal, the landlady died and the legal representatives were brought on record. The learned principal Senior Civil Judge, Vijayawada/ appellate Authority also had confirmed the findings of the Rent Controller and dismissed the Appeal on 13-10-2000. The learned Senior civil Judge, Vijayawada/appellate authority also had arrived at a conclusion that inasmuch as there were no independent cross Objections in relation to the grounds which had been rejected by the learned Rent controller, Vijayawada, there was no need to disturb the said findings also. Aggrieved by the same, the tenant preferred the present civil Revision Petition and as referred to supra, pending the Civil Revision Petition, the tenant too died and his legal representatives are at present prosecuting the present litigation.

( 3 ) SRI Srinivas Murthy, counsel representing the legal representatives of the deceased tenant/revision Petitioners had submitted that the tenant had taken a clear and a specific stand that the property let out was only an extent of 500 sq. yards and not 1500 sq. yards, no doubt with a building



















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