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2015 Supreme(All) 321

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : P.K.S. BAGHEL, J.
RAGHUNATH GOEL .....Revisionist
Versus
YOGENDRA SINGH NEHRU .....Opposite Party
(Civil Revision No. 404 of 2011, decided on 3rd April, 2015)

Advocates:
Counsel :
Anurag Khanna, Mohit Kumar Singh and Tarun Agrawal for the Revisionist; Vijaya Prakash for the Opposite Party.

Headnote:Eviction—Tenant—Revisional jurisdiction—Tenant admitted that he got possession and rate of rent was Rs. 18,000 per month—A jural relationship between the parties came into existence—Non-payment of rent—Conflict with regard to the fact whether the landlord had given possession of entire premises or not—Such disputed question of fact could not be adjudicated in revisional jurisdiction under Section 25 of Small Cause Courts Act—The Court below recorded a finding of fact on the basis of the unrebutted report of the Amin and the other evidence on record—Tenant granted three months’ time to vacate the premises subject to certain conditions. [Paras 26, 29, 36 and 37]

       Result; Revision Dismissed.

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble P.K.S. Baghel, J.—The tenant/defendant has preferred this Civil Revision under Section 25 of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (Act 9 of 1887) against the order dated 16 August 2011 passed by Judge Small Causes Court, whereby the suit for the eviction of tenant has been decreed.

2. The essential facts are; the plaintiff/respondent is the owner and landlord of the premises Chaudhary Bhawan situated at Niwari Road, Modi Nagar, District Ghaziabad. The landlord instituted a suit No. 72 of 2006 in the Court of Judge, Small Causes Court, Ghaziabad for the eviction of the tenant/revisionist and for the recovery of Rs. 3,18,600/- as arrears of rent together with pendente lite and further interest. The landlord has further claimed damages at the rate of Rs. 25,000/- per month for the use and occupation of the premises from 16 July 2005 till the premises is actually vacated by the defendant and the possession is handed over to the landlord. He further claimed a sum of Rs. 2 lacs as damages for the expenses incurred by him in making modification of the premises. The landlord’s case was that he let out a portion of the house, Chaudhary Bhawan consisting three halls, three rooms, two verandas and two galleries at the rate of Rs. 18,000/- per month w.e.f. 27.1.2004. The landlord and the tenant entered into an agreement dated 27.1.2004 in the said premises for a period of three years. The tenant had taken the premises on rent for running a Coaching Institute/Educational Institution. On the request of the tenant the landlord had made suitable alterations in his premises as per the need of the tenant. Accordingly, he has incurred a sum of approximately Rs. 2 lacs for the modifications. As the tenant wanted to run the educational institution, the existing kitchens were altered to make the room for the said purposes.

3. It is stated that after the alteration of the building the tenant took the possession of the premises on 27.1.2004. But the tenant did not make the payment of rent in terms of the agreement. It is averred in the plaint that for the reasons best known to the tenant he has not used the building. The furniture is lying in the building and his associates/employees come to the premises and sit there for the whole day and leave it after locking the same. The landlord repeatedly made requests for the payment of arrears of the rent but the tenant was not serious about the payment of the rent. When the tenant did not pay any heed to the repeated requests of the landlord for the payment of his arrears of rent and the current rent the land lord had no option but to send a notice dated 17 June 2005 under Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (Act No. 4 of 1882) for terminating his tenancy and demanding arrears of rent and for vacation of the premises. It is stated that the said notice was duly served upon the defendant/tenant but neither he made the payment of rent nor vacated the premises.

4. The tenant contested the suit. In its written statement the tenant admitted the fact that the tenancy commenced on 27.1.2004 in terms of the agreement at the rate of Rs. 18,000/- per month but the landlord had given possession of only one hall, one room and in the rest of the premises the landlord has been keeping his goods and living in the same premises. The landlord had assured the tenant that within 8-10 days he would vacate the remaining part of the tenanted premises and will handover the possession of the rest of the building in terms of the agreement. The tenant also admitted that an agreement was entered into between the landlord and the tenant on 27.1.2004 but the landlord did not handover the possession of entire premises as per the agreement, for the said reason there was no relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties. It has also been stated that the landlord has refused to accept the rent.

5. It was further averred that after sometime the tenant wanted to vacate the premises by removing his






















































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