Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 50 · Decided 20 February 1990
Subhash Mehta v. DR. S.P. Choudhary (Dead) BY LRS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 50 · [1990] 1 S.C.R. 506
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 355/1981
- Decided
- 20 February 1990
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. PUNCHHI, S.C. AGRAWAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136; Rent Control Act Section 15(1)
Headnote
Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958: S. 15(1)-Rigour of-Eviction sustained on facts of the case. c In the proceedings for eviction under the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 for arrears of rent, subletting, conversion of user from residential to commercial and bona fide need, the appellant-tenant committed of the Act in the matter of payment of monthly rent. Consequently, his defence was struck off and the suit decreed on the sole ground of delayed payment of D future rent. All the other grounds were rejected. The tenant assailed the order before the Rent Control Tribunal ~-relying on Hem Chand v,
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