IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION
INTERIM APPLICATION (L)NO. 30022 OF 2025
IN
SUIT (L) NO. 30021 OF 2025
Gaurav Sri Kalyan
s/o Shri Jayant Kumar Gupta ….Applicant/Original/Plaintiff
In the Matter Between
Gaurav Sri Kalyan
s/o Shri Jayant Kumar Gupta ….. Plaintiff
: Versus :
Ram Naresh Singh and Others …..Defendants
Mr. Shailesh Shah, Senior Advocate with Mr. Karl Shroff, Mr. Vaibhav Mehta & Mr. Nishant Tanna i/b Vaibhav Mehta & Associates, for the Plaintiff.
Mr. Surel Shah, Senior Advocate i/b Mr. Anil Mishra with Mr. U.V. Singh, for Defendant No. 1 & for Applicant in IAL/31732/2025.
Mr. Mayur Khandeparkar with Mr. Ratnakar Singh, for Defendant No. 2.
Mr. Salil Choudhari, for Defendant No. 3.
CORAM : SANDEEP V. MARNE, J.
DATED : 13 OCTOBER 2025.
JUDGMENT:
1) Plaintiff has filed the present Interim Application seeking temporary injunction for restoration of possession of the suit premises during pendency of the Suit.
2) Plaintiff has filed the present Suit under Section 6 of the Specific Relief Act,1963 (the Act) complaining of dispossession by the Defendants on 8 September 2025. Block Nos.1 and 3 on ground floor of the building named ‘Laxmi Sadan’ situated at Plot No.123, Sir Bhalchandra Road, 5th Lane Corner, Hindu Colony, Dadar (East), Mumbai are the ‘suit premises’.
3) Plaintiff’s pleaded case in the Plaint is that he is a nephew and Class-II legal heir of Radheshyam Chhotelal Shah (Radheshyam) who was a tenant in respect of the suit premises. It is also Plaintiff’s case that Smt. Saroj Krishnaji Salakade (Saroj) had 1/6th undivided share in the land and the building in which the suit premises are located. That the other co-owners had transferred/released their respective 1/6th shares in the land and the building in her favor thereby making Saroj 50% owner in respect of the land and the building. That Radheshyam took possession of Block No.1 on the ground floor from another tenant and acquired tenancy rights therein by paying consideration. That Radheshyam also acquired tenancy rights in respect of Block No.3 on the ground floor from Saroj for valid consideration. This is how Radheshyam claimed tenancy rights in respect of Block Nos.1 and 3 which are the suit premises.
4) Saroj was occupying Block No.9 and Radheshyam and his wife used to take care of her and started residing with Saroj in Block No.9 since 1993-94. That said Saroj bequeathed her entire share in the land and building in favour of Radheshyam vide Will dated 25 January 2006. That Plaintiff is the executor of the Will executed by Saroj. After the death of Saroj, Defendant No.2, with the aid of Defendant No.3
and Defendant No.1 forcibly dispossessed Radheshyam on 3 September 2006 in respect of possession of Block No.9. Radheshyam returned to the suit premises. Radheshyam had instituted S.C. Suit No. 4835/2006 under Section 6 of the Act complaining about forcible dispossession from Block No.9, which is still pending.
5) Radheshyam is the brother of Plaintiff’s father. Radheshyam did not have any issue and his wife had passed away in the year 2012. Plaintiff claims to be the sole legal heir of Radheshyam. Plaintiff’s father passed away in the year 1999 after which he shifted to Mumbai and started residing with Radheshyam earlier in Block No.9 as a member of his family. Plaintiff took up employment in Jordan but continued visiting Radheshyam almost every year by residing with him in Block No.9. After death of Saroj on 8 August 2006, Plaintiff had resided with Radheshyam in Block No.9. After forcible dispossession of Radheshyam from Block No. 9 in September 2006, he shifted to the suit premises and Plaintiff resided with Radheshyam in suit premises as a member of his family. That as per the wish of Radheshyam, Plaintiff had given up employment in Jordan with intention to permanently settle down in India in the year 2012 and resided with Radheshyam in the suit premises as family member. That in 2016, due to personal reasons, Plaintiff was constrained back to travel back to Jordan. That during 2016 to 2025, Plaintiff used to regularly visit Radheshyam and reside in the suit premises as a member of his family. That Plaintiff used to take care of Radheshyam. Plaintiff relies upon several documents to prove his residence in the suit premises. Radheshyam passed away on 2 July 2025. Plaintiff immediately flew down to India on 3 July 2025 from Jordan and performed last rites of
Radheshyam. At about 2.00 p.m. on 8 September 2025, Plaintiff was forcibly dispossessed from the suit premises by the Defendants. Plaintiff has narrated the account of the events that allegedly occurred on 8 September 2025 leading to his dispossession from the suit premises, to which detailed reference at this st
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