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ALKA SARIN
Kishan Gopal Chaba – Appellant
Versus
Amrik Singh – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Alka Sarin, J.
The present revision petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India has been preferred against the order dated 07.10.2014 passed by the Rent Controller, Gurdaspur on a petition filed under Section 13 -B of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to as 'Punjab Rent Act') ordering the eviction of the tenant-Petitioners from the demised premises.
2. The brief facts relevant to the present lis are that the landlord-Respondent filed an ejectment petition under Section 13 -B of the Punjab Rent Act for eviction of the tenant-Petitioners from the demised premises which is a shop. It was averred in the ejectment petition that the landlord-Respondent was originally a resident of Village Fateh Nangal, Tehsil and District Gurdaspur and he migrated to Canada in the year 2002 along with his family and thereafter he was employed in the City of Edmonton in Canada. The ejectment petition was filed on the ground that the landlord-Respondent was a NRI settled in Canada along with his family and that he became the owner of the demised premises in the year 1987. Previously his father was the owner of the demised premises and on his demise
The judgment establishes the special rights and restrictions for NRI landlords under Section 13-B of the Punjab Rent Act, emphasizing the burden on tenants to prove the landlord's requirement is not ....
The heavy burden on the tenant to prove that the landlord's requirement is not genuine and the special rights granted to NRI landlords under Section 13-B of the Act.
The central legal point established in the judgment is the stringent requirements for ejectment of a tenant by an NRI landlord under Section 13-B of the Act, 1949, and the presumption in favor of the....
The landlord's genuine necessity for eviction and the ability of a co-owner to seek eviction on behalf of other co-owners.
The genuine need of the landlord for eviction under Section 13-B of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949.
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