Bombay Rents, Hotels and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947

The original lease of a 99‑year term on a plot in Mumbai, used for a cotton mill, later vested in a charitable trust. After the lease expired, Podar Mills occupied the premises as a protected tenant under the Bombay Rents Act. The Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Act, 1995 vested the statutory tenancy rights in t…

Esso Eastern Inc., later Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., occupied a flat in Shyam Co‑operative Housing Society on a leave‑and‑licence basis from 1968, with the licence renewed yearly. By 1 February 1973 a subsisting licence existed, rendering the occupier a "deemed tenant" under section 15A of the Bombay Rent Act…

The Arya Samaj, which runs a girls' school, filed an eviction suit against the tenant occupying its building, claiming the premises were needed for additional school accommodation. The trial court and the appellate court ordered eviction under section 12(f) of the Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961, accepti…