2010 Supreme(Guj) 213
K. A. Puj
DINESH SAKARABHAI PATEL & ANR.
versus
SURYABEN NA VINCHANDRA SHAH*
Civil Revision Application No. 87 of 2010 Small Causes Court No. 6 in Civil Appeal No. 69 of 2008.
Decided on 2-8-2010.
S. P. Majmudar, for the Petitioner.
P. C. Kavina, Sr. Advocate, with Rahul K. Pandya, for the Respondent.
Headnote:
Tenancy and Landlord - Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 - Section 29(2) - Eviction - Challenging judgment and order passed by Appellate Bench of Small Causes Court, in Civil Appeal confirming the judgment and decree passed by Small Causes Court - Petitioners are original defendants of H.R.P. Suit which was instituted by respondent under Act, 1947 on ground petitioners are not using suit premises for personal use and respondent is entitled to get possession of suit premises - Alleged original defendants transferred suit premises to his son, who is not tenant and defendant put benches on open plot and is allowing his customers to sit on open land which causes nuisance - Held, Facts are different and situation was also different in earlier suit as well as in present suit - Plea raised by respondent/plaintiff for breach of terms and conditions of tenancy in Second Appeal was not factually available to respondent/plaintiff at a time of filing of First Suit - No interference is called for so far as finding recorded by Courts below regarding breach of tenancy agreement is concerned - Tenant admitted in his cross- examination that he kept gate closed and key remains with him - Landlord cannot enter without opening that gate - By adopting this method tenant has curtailed landlord's right to use property - Landlord has submitted that tenant and their persons by playing tape-recorder and radio with full volume cause nuisance - Tenant allowed the persons to sit on that place and hence family members of landlord felt inconvenience to move freely on that land and they could not enjoy their right to move freely on property - Plea of causing nuisance and annoyance to the landlord is also established and both Courts below have given their concurrent finding on this issue - No reason for this Court to disturb the said finding of facts - Civil Revision Application rejected.
K. A. PUJ, J. The petitioners-original defendants have filed this Civil Revision Application under Sec. 29(2) of the Bombay Rents, Hotel & Lodging Rates Control Act, 1947 challenging the judgment and order dated 14-5-2010 passed by the Appellate Bench of the Small Causes Court, Ahmedabad in Civil Appeal No. 69 of 2008 confirming the judgment and decree passed by the Small Causes Court No.6, Ahmedabad on 25-3-2008 in H.R.P. Suit No. 372 of 2005.
2. Heard Mr. S. P. Majmudar, learned Advocate appearing for the petitioners and Mr. P. C. Kavina, learned Senior Counsel appearing with Mr. Rahul K. Pandya for the respondents on caveat. With the consent of the parties, the matter is taken up for final hearing even at admission stage.
3. The brief facts giving rise to the present Civil Revision Application are that the petitioners are the original defendants of H.R.P: Suit No. 372 of 2005 which was instituted by the respondent under the provisions of the Bombay Rent Act. The suit was filed on the ground that the petitioners are not using the suit premises for personal use, and hence, the respondent is entitled to get the possession of the suit premises. It was also alleged in the suit that the original defendants transferreci the suit premises to his son, who is not a tenant. It was further alleged that the defendant has put benches on the open plot and is allowing his customers to sit on the open land which causes nuisance. The said suit was initially filed against the father of the present petitioners i.e. Sakarbhai Patel who has since been expired. On service of the summons in the suit, the appearance was filed on behalf of the petitioners and written statement was filed denying the averments made in the suit. It was stated that there was no breach of any condition of the rent note and from inception, the petitioners were allowed to use front side of the suit premises. The suit premises had not been handed over to the son of the original defendants or there is no nuisance or annoyance. Reliance was also placed by the defendants upon the judgment and order passed by the Small Causes Court in H.R.P. Suit No. 1123 of 1993 whereby the suit of the respondent-original plaintiff for possession, inter alia, on the ground of arrears of rent was dismissed. The said judgment and order had become final between the parties on the issue of arrears of rent. An agreement dated 4-7-1975 with respect to construction and rent was entered into and reliance was placed by the defendants on the said agreement while defending the suit. In the previous suit, panch nama was made and Commissioner's report was also made. In the cross-examination, the defendants had contended that an agreement dated 6-3-1975 was also entered into between the parties and both the agreements are required to be read together. The Small Causes Court, Ahmedabad vide its judgment and decree dated 25-3-2008 allowed the suit filed by the original plaintiff.
4. Being aggrieved by the said judgment and decree, the petitioners preferred an appeal being Civil Appeal No. 169 of 2008 which came to be dismissed by the Appellate Bench of the Small Causes Court, Ahmedabad on 14-5-2010.
5. It is these orders which are under challenge in the present Civil Revision Application.
6. Mr. S. P. Majmudar, learned Advocate appearing for thy petitioners has submitted that the agreement for construction and rent note has been executed between the parties and both the parties are bound by the terms and conditions of the said agreements. Just merely making fence on both the sides i.e. north and south would not create any nuisance and annoyance. The fact that the gate was permitted to be installed itself was indicative of the fact that there was already a fencing existing as without the same, it would not have been possible to install the gate. He has further submitted that by virtue of agreement of construction, the petitioners had used the premises and the land and there was no breach of terms of any ten