Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1152 · Decided 17 September 2009
Rishab Chand Bhandari (D) BY LRS. & ANR. v. National Engineering Industry LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1152 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 662
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1320/2005
- Decided
- 17 September 2009
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
R~jasthan Premises (Control of Rent & Eviction). Act, + c 1950 s.3(iii) - 'Landlord' - Plaintiff filing suit for eviction of tenant from premises belonging to Trust claiming that it was authorized by Trost to do so - Defendant's plea that he was D paying rent Trost and did not commit any default in payment of re.-:t - Suit decreed by trial court - Held: -.;- A purposive, and not literal, interpretation hP-s io be given to the definition of 'land/ore/' In the Act - It is well settled, if a literal interpretation leads to absurd consequences, it should
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