Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 95 · Decided 20 March 1990
Pukhraj Jain v. MRS. Padma Kashyap and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 95 · [1990] 2 S.C.R. 25
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 7914/1989
- Decided
- 20 March 1990
- Bench
- K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY, R.M. SAHAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Rent Control Act Section 21
Headnote
Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958: Section 21-Recovery of posses­ sion by landlord from tenant-Whether legal representatives of landlord can initiate and continue proceedings for recovery. The petitioner-tenant was let out the demised premises by the landlord for a period of three years, with the expiry of period 9f tenancy. After the expiry of the period, his legal representatives made an application for recovery of possession. This application was resisted by the tenant on the ground that proceedings for recovery of possession under section 21 could not be initiated and
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