ABDUL HADI
Ranjan Devasahayam – Appellant
Versus
Hindustan Bible Institute of India, Madras – Respondent
The defendant/ tenant has filed this second appeal against the impugned judgment and decree of the courts below concurrently granting relief of possession of the suit building, arrears of rent and damages for use and occupation, in favour of the respondent/ plaintiff, Hindustan Bible Institute India.
2. Only two submissions were argued before me in this Second Appeal by the learned counsel for the appellant. One is, the courts below have erred in having concluded that G.O.Ms.No.2000, Home dated 16th August, 1976 issued under Sec.29 of the Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) would apply to the suit building. In other words, according to him, the said G.O. would not apply to the said building and therefore, if at all, the plaintiff could go before the Rent Controller to get an eviction order against the appellant from the suit building and that the civil court will have no jurisdiction to try the present suit. The 2nd submission is that the plaintiff "Hindustan Bible Institute India" is not the landlord of the appellant but only the "Hindustan Bible Institute and College" and that hence the present suit laid by the pl
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