Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 223 · Decided 29 November 1973
Krishnawati v. Hans Raj
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 223 · [1974] 2 S.C.R. 524
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1475/1970
- Decided
- 29 November 1973
- Bench
- D.G. PALEKAR, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. SARKARIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Rent Control Act
Headnote
Delhi Rent Control Act (59of1958) Ss. 14 and 39 (2}-0nus of provlnt sub·lettint -Mixed question of law and fact, what js, The appellant took a lease of shop premises from the respondent. From the time of letting, a chemist's business was carried on in the shop by S with the oocaaional help respondent. The respondent applied under s. 14 of tho Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, for eviction of the appellant on the lll'OUlld that she had sublet tho premises to S. The Rent Controller and tho Tribunal on appesl hold that the appellant and S. were living together as husband and Wile, and that
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