Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 377 · Decided 17 August 2001
Nilima Mukherjee v. Kanta Bhusan Ghosh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 377 · [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 675
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5383/2001
- Decided
- 17 August 2001
- Bench
- S.S.M. QUADRI, S.N. PHUKAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Rent Control and Eviction Eviction suit-Death of tenant-Appellants's claim to tenancay-Based on adoption-Adoption not proved-Suit decreed-Held, suit rightly decreed. C Hindu law Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956-Section 11 (Vl)-Death of tenant-Claim to tenancy based on adoption-Witnesses D with deceased tenant-Held, adoption not valid in the absence of proof­ Hence, claim to tenancy rightly rejected by courts below. The Respondent/plaintiff filed an eviction suit against the appellant on the ground that as 'R' who was inducted as tenant died intestate, the tenancy became
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