HIGH COURT OF MADRAS
HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE R.N.MANJULA
Uma – Appellant
Versus
Venkatesh – Respondent
O R D E R
This Civil Revision Petition has been filed seeking for a direction to the learned XV Judge (Rent Controller), Small Causes Court, Chennai, for numbering the unnumbered I.A.SR.No.23343 of 2022 in R.L.T.O.P.No.801 of 2021.
2. The revision petitioner is the tenant against whom the respondent / landlord has filed the original petition in R.L.T.O.P.No.801 of 2021 for eviction on the grounds of absence of written tenancy agreement and the said petition was not taken on file. Aggrieved over that, the tenant has filed the present Civil Revision Petition.
3. The learned counsel for the revision petitioner submitted that if there is no written agreement then the remedy open to the landlord is to file a civil suit for ejection and hence, he should be allowed to file a petition seeking to reject the eviction petition.
4. The fact remains that the ground under Section 21(2)(a) of the Tamil Nadu Regulation of Rights and Responsibilities of Landlords and Tenants Act, 2017 is very much available to a landlord if the tenants failed to enter into an agreement. When the landlord is prosecuting the case on that ground, the tenant has misconstrued the judgment rendered in C.R.P.(NPD)No.3056 of 2
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