Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 612 · Decided 14 December 1994
SMT. Kamla Devi v. SH. Vasdev
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 612 · [1994] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 603
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9231/1994
- Decided
- 14 December 1994
- Bench
- S.P. BHARUCHA, S.C. SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Rent Control Act Section 14(1)(a)
Headnote
B Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958: Sections 14(1) (a) and(2) and 15(1) and (7). Tenant-Failure to pay rent-Eviction petition-Rent Controller's order directing tenant to pay rent and arrears-Default committed by C tenant-Power of Rent Controller to strike out tenant's defence-Held provision for not be exercised mechanically without application of mind-Where the Rent Controller condoned the tenant's delay in depositing the arrears of rent on the ground D that failure was not intentional grant of benefit of section 14(2) to tenant held justified Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act,
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