Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 334 · Decided 16 December 1976
MOHD. Shafi v. Seventh Additional District & Sessions Judge, Allahabad & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 334 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 464
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 722/1976
- Decided
- 16 December 1976
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
U.P. Urban Buildi11gs (Regulation of Le/ling, Rent and Eviction) Actfin2- Sec. 2! (I) expla11ation (iv )-Interpretation of a benevolent legislarion-When two views possible-Whether to be construed strictly against the landlord­ Meaning of "building" in explanation (iv)-Whether Constitu:ion-Articles 226-227-Whether High Court can interfere with mixed questions of law a11d facts. Respondent No. 3 owned a double storey house. There were two tenements on the ground floor and two on the first floor. Each of the two tenements in the first floor was in possession
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