IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
J.J. MUNIR, J.
Aziz Uddin - Appellant
Versus
Rajesh Verma - Respondent
Civil Revision No. 202 of 2013
Decided on : 24-03-2022
Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 - Section 30(1), 20(2)(a) - Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 - Section 25 - Indian Evidence Act, 1872 - Section 17 - Transfer of Property Act, 1882 - Section 106 - Decree of eviction - Arrears of rent - Revision is directed against judgment and decree of dismissing Suit for eviction, recovery of arrears of rent and mesne profits - Held, Trial Court has carefully looked into documentary evidence showing tender of rent by money order and by deposit in Court under Section 30(1) of Act relative to different periods of time vis-à-vis figures of rent deposited - Record bears out with findings of Trial Court and does not lead to any inference about default in payment of rent - So far as right of plaintiff to evict defendant is concerned, all that would then have to be seen by Trial Court is whether a valid notice to quit in accordance with Section 106 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882 has been served upon defendant - Revision allowed in part.
JUDGMENT :
J.J. Munir, J.
This revision is directed against the judgment and decree of Mr. Arun Chandra Srivasava, Additional District Judge, Court No. 6, Agra dismissing S.C.C. Suit No. 21 of 2005 for eviction, recovery of arrears of rent and mesne profits.
2. According to the revisionist, the plaintiff in S.C.C. Suit No. 21 of 2005, he is the owner in possession of property bearing Premises No. 1/2008, Professors' Colony, Civil Lines, Agra. The defendant, who is the respondent to this revision, according to the plaintiff-revisionist (for short, 'the plaintiff'), proposed to the plaintiff that if the latter were to construct a shop on the corner of his lawn, which was part of his premises No. 1/208, Professors Colony, Civil Lines, Agra, the defendant would take the shop on rent in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- per mensem. The plaintiff got a shop constructed on the south-western corner of his lawn between the months of July to August, 2003 and let it out to the defendant-respondent (for short, 'the defendant'). The defendant entered the tenanted shop, accepting it on a rent of Rs. 10,000/- per month. The tenancy commenced on 28.8.2003. The defendant paid to the plaintiff rent for the period 28.8.2003 to 27.9.2003 and 28.9.2003 to 27.10.2003 at the rate of Rs. 10,000/- per month. The plaintiff issued receipts to the defendant for the rent paid by the latter. Next, the defendant paid the plaintiff the accumulated rent for the period 28.10.2003 to 27.12.2003, that is to say, for a period of two months in the sum of Rs.20,000/-. Thereafter, the defendant did not pay any rent to the plaintiff. The plaintiff got a notice dated 24.5.2005 served upon the defendant, which was dispatched by registered post on 17.6.2005. Despite service of the notice, the defendant did not pay the rent due.
3. The notice aforesaid determined the defendant's tenancy, asking him to quit on the expiry of thirty days from the receipt of notice, but he did not vacate. According to the plaintiff, the shop is a new construction that was raised in the months of July and August, 2003 and the contracted rent is Rs. 10,000/- per month. As such, the provisions of The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972) (for short 'the Act') do not govern the tenancy. The defendant is a troublesome character and whenever the plaintiff would demand the due rent, the former would get annoyed and lay false complaints to the Police. It was in the said background that the plaintiff was compelled to terminate the defendant's tenancy, as already indicated, vide notice dated 24.5.2005. It is asserted that the notice that was sent by registered post on 17.6.2005 was delivered to the defendant personally on 18.6.2005.
4. In answer to the suit, the defendant filed his written statement, saying that he is a tenant in the shop that bears the humble dimensions of 7' x 8'. The said shop is part of Municipal Premises No. 1/108, Professors' Colony, Civil Lines, Hariparvat Ward, Agra. The defendant, however, asserted that he is a tenant in the demised shop at a monthly rent of Rs. 1000/-. The demised shop was a garage in the past. He does not hold the shop on a rent of Rs. 10,000/- per month. It has been denied by him that he ever approached the plaintiff to get a shop constructed in a part of his lawn, which he later on took on a rent of Rs. 10,000/- per month. The defendant also denied the fact that the demised shop stands on the south-western corner of the plaintiff's lawn or that it was constructed in the months of July and August 2003. The defendant denied the plaintiff's case that the tenancy commenced on 28.8.2003 at a contracted rent of Rs. 10,000/-. To the contrary, the plaintiff let out the demised shop to the defendant on 1st May, 2002 on a rent of Rs. 1,000/- per month and charged from the defendant, by way security, a sum of Rs. 1,45,000/-. The security was paid by the defendant on the plaintiff's assurance that whenever the d
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