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2023 Supreme(Raj) 1937

IN THE HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH
INDERJEET SINGH, J.
Jaspal Singh Kumar - Petitioner
Versus
Dr. Rishi Bhargav and Others – Respondents
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 2245 of 2023, S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 2244 of 2023
Decided On : 07-02-2023

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Yash Sharma, Mr. Aman Lodha, Mr. Anuj Goyal, Advocates.
For the Respondents: Mr. N.K. Maloo, Sr. Counsel assisted by Ms. Abhilasha Vaishnav, Mr. Pratyush Sharma.

Headnote:(A) Rent Control Act - Provisions regarding eviction - The tenant's petitions challenging eviction orders of the Rent Tribunal and Appellate Rent Tribunal are dismissed. The landlord's requirement for a hospital was established as bona fide necessity, contradicting the tenant's claims. (Paras 2, 15)

(B) Standard of review - High Courts review evidentiary findings only for perversity and cannot substitute their findings for those of lower courts. (Paras 11, 15)

Facts of the case:
The landlord sought eviction on the grounds of dilapidation and necessity for constructing a hospital after renting the shop to the tenant's father in 1975. The tenant contested the claims of need.

Findings of Court:
The Appellate Rent Tribunal upheld the landlord's bona fide necessity for property usage, dismissing the tenant's appeal as there was no error in the factual findings.

Issues: The court addressed whether the landlord's need was genuine and if the Rent Tribunal's decisions were erroneous.

Ratio Decidendi: The court affirmed the findings as factual and within the landlord's prerogative to choose the use of the premises, asserting that the tenant's long-term occupancy did not preclude eviction for bona fide purposes.

Result: Writ petitions dismissed.

Table of Content
1. challenge to rent tribunal orders (Para 1 , 2 , 3)
2. details of evidence presented (Para 4 , 5)
3. contentions from both parties (Para 6 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13)
4. court's rationale for dismissing the writ (Para 14 , 15)
5. final order of dismissal (Para 16)

ORDER :

(Inderjeet Singh, J.)

Since these two writ petitions relates to the one and the same property and are assailing the orders passed by the Rent Tribunal as well as Appellate Rent Tribunal, hence with consent of the parties, both the writ petitions have been heard together and are being decided by the present common order.

2. The petitioner (to be referred as tenant) has filed these writ petitions challenging the order dated 07.09.2022 passed by the Appellate Rent Tribunal, Jaipur Metropolitan-II whereby the appeal No.37/2021 filed on behalf of the tenant against the order dated 06.08.2021 passed by the Rent Tribunal, Jaipur Metropolitan-II was dismissed and cross Appeal No.40/2021 filed on behalf of the respondents (to be referred as landlord) was allowed.

3. Brief facts of the case are that in the year 1975, the shop in dispute was taken on rent by the father of the tenant. The landlord filed eviction application against the tenant in the year 2015 on the ground that the building (disputed premises) is in a dilapidated condition and the same is required for construction and running of a hospital in the memory of their head of the family late Mr. Panna Lal. The tenant filed reply to the eviction application and denied the averments made therein and on the basis of the pleadings of the parties, the learned Rent Tribunal framed following issues:-

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4. The landlord in support of their eviction application adduced the evidence of PW-1-Dr. Rishi Bhargava, and also submitted the documentary evidence Ex.1 to Ex.33. The tenant in support of their reply adduced the evidence of DW-1-Jaspal Singh and also produced the documentary evidence Ex.A-1 to Ex.A-6, thereafter, the Rent Tribunal finally heard the matter and decided the issue No.1 in favour of the landlord and issue No.2 was decided against the landlord vide its order dated 06.08.2021.

5. Being aggrieved by the order dated 06.08.2021, the tenant filed Appeal No.37/2021 and the landlord filed cross Appeal No.40/2021 for quashing of the finding given on issue No.2 by the Rent Tribunal. The Appellate Rent Tribunal dismissed the appeal filed by the tenant and allowed the cross appeal filed on behalf of the landlord vide its order dated 07.09.2022. Hence, these writ petitions have been filed by the tenant challenging the order dated 07.09.2022 passed by the Appellate Rent Tribunal as well as the order dated 06.08.2021 passed by the Rent Tribunal.

6. Counsel for the tenant submitted that the Rent Tribunal as well as the Appellate Rent Tribunal failed to consider the provisions of the law as well as the documentary evidence in this matter. Counsel further submits that the Appellate Rent Tribunal has recorded a perverse finding with regard to issue No.1 without any basis. Counsel further submits that so far as issue No.2 of bona fide need and necessity of the landlord is concerned, the finding recorded thereon is also perverse as the landlord wants to construct the hospital after demolishing the disputed premises which is merely a desire of the landlord and not the bona fide necessity.

7. In support of his contentions, counsel relied upon the judgment passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the matter of Shadi Singh v. Rakha reported in (1992) 3 SCC 55.

8. He further relied upon the judgment passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the

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