(PER: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE K.MANMADHA RAO)

The present Commercial Appeal No.554/2024 is filed by the Appellant/Defendant challenging the judgment and decree dated 10.12.2024 passed in Com.O.S.No.926/2024, by the LXXXVI Addl. City Civil and Sessions Judge, (Commercial Court) Bengaluru (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commercial Court’).

2. The appellant herein is the defendant and the respondent herein is the plaintiff in Comm.O.S No.926/2014 before the Commercial Court.

3. The respondent/plaintiff filed the Commercial Original Suit seeking for eviction of the appellant/defendant- partnership firm and to direct the appellant/defendant to pay mesne profits for its illegal occupation of the suit property w.e.f. 01.01.2024 and differential in amount in mesne profit from January 2024 to May 2024 with interest at the rate of

18% per annum and such other consequential reliefs.

4. For convenience of reference, the parties are hereinafter referred to as arrayed before the Commercial Court in Comm.O.S.No.926/2014.

5. Brief facts of the cas