JUDGMENT :

“If on expiry of lease period of a registered lease deed, a request for further lease for nine years on fresh terms and conditions is made by the tenant without registration of lease under Section 17 read with Section 49 of the Registration Act, 1908, then what shall be the status of the tenant, the tenancy and his eviction? Is the main controversy involved in the present revision.”

1. Heard Sri Pankaj Agarwal, learned counsel for the defendants/revisionists and Sri Madhur Prakash, learned counsel for the plaintiffs/opposite parties in Civil Revision No.561 of 2014, and, Sri Madhur Prakash, learned counsel for the plaintiffs-revisionists and Sri Pankaj Agarwal, learned counsel for the defendants/respondents in Civil Revision No.141 of 2007.

2. Both the aforesaid civil revisions have been filed under Section 25 of Provincial of Small Causes Courts Act, 1887 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act 1887') and arise from the impugned judgment dated 31.01.2007 in S.C.C. Suit No.04 of 2006 (Ajay Kumar and others. vs. Kshetriya Sri Gandhi Ashram and another). Therefore, with the consent of the learned counsels for the parties, both the revisions are being heard together.

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