Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 486 · Decided 5 October 2005
Baldev Singh Bajwa v. Monish Saini
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 486 · [2005] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 26
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6131/2005
- Decided
- 5 October 2005
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Rent Control and Eviction East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (Act of 1949)-Section C 2(dd)-NRI landlord-Return to India-Who is-Held, can be persons who have permanently settled outside India need not return permanently to India­ Not necessary to be citizen of lnaia-Further held, an NRI for the purposes of the Act. D Section 13-B, 18A(5)-Eviction on the ground of requirement of NRI landlord-presumption that landlord's need is genuine and bonafide--He/d, would not disentile the tenant fi"om proving otherwise-Further held, burden lies on tenant to prove all necessary
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