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The cooperative society filed a suit under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 to evict Usman Sayyad Dastgir. The trial court dismissed the suit, and the society appealed. The appellate court remanded the case back to the trial court, directing the impleadment of a necessary party, Dr. Popatlal …
The cooperative society filed a suit under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 to evict Usman Sayyad Dastgir, which the trial court dismissed. The society appealed, and the appellate court remanded the case to the trial court to implead a necessary party, Dr. Popatlal Kothari, and rehear the …
The co-operative society filed a suit under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 to evict Usman Sayyed Dastgir, which the trial court dismissed. The society appealed, and the appellate court remanded the case back to the trial court to implead a "necessary party" (Dr. Popatlal Kothari) and rehear …
The revision applicant, Bhagabai Ganpati Shinde (deceased) represented by her heir Yashoda Prakash Budhgaonkar, challenged a decree of eviction under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, which had been upheld by the trial and appellate courts. The landlords claimed a bona‑fide requirement for the …
Bank of India, a lessee of premises in Mumbai, continued to occupy the premises after the lease expired in 2013, paying rent on a month‑to‑month basis until a termination notice was served in January 2014. The bank surrendered possession in February 2016. A suit for eviction, arrears and mesne …
The respondent filed a suit in the Small Causes Court, Pune, under Section 15(1) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, claiming unlawful eviction from a property. The applicant, who claimed to have transferred possession to the respondent via leave‑and‑license agreements, moved a pre‑suit …
The heirs of the original defendant filed a civil revision challenging eviction decrees issued under Section 15 of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, alleging that the landlord’s demand notice was invalid because rent had been paid through the tenants’ association and the money order was …
The heirs of the original defendant filed a civil revision to challenge two eviction decrees based on default under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act. A demand notice dated 26 March 2002 sought arrears of rent from 1987 to 2002, and the suit was filed in December 2002. The defendant claimed to have …
The petitioner, Meenu Navinchandra Manocha, occupied a flat in Mumbai under two successive leave‑and‑license agreements, each at a monthly fee of Rs.45,000. After the second agreement expired, she remained in possession, claiming a verbal extension and a settlement for her security deposit. …
The applicant, a public charitable trust, filed an eviction suit against its tenant for allegedly sub‑letting part of the premises without permission, invoking Section 16(1)(e) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999. The trial court dismissed the suit on the ground that the trust had not passed a …
The applicant, Swapnil Dr. Deepak Chhotelal Agarwal, filed a civil revision seeking a declaration that he is the tenant of premises previously occupied by his father, the original tenant who died on 26 September 1989. He relied on Section 7(15)(d) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, asserting …
The petition was filed by the original defendant challenging the orders of the executing court that dismissed his objection to the execution of an eviction decree. The petitioner argued that the conveyance deed in favour of the plaintiff was unregistered at the time the suit was filed, contending …
The Bank of Maharashtra, a nationalised bank, owned a chawl that it redeveloped into a new building and entered into tenancy agreements with the former tenants, Arjun Satardekar and Janabai Raut. After the tenants' deaths, the bank served notices under Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act …
The Bank of Maharashtra, a nationalised bank, owned a chawl that it redeveloped into a new building and entered into tenancy agreements with the former tenants, Arjun Satardekar and Janabai Raut. After the tenants' deaths, the bank served notices under Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act …
The applicants, Shehnaz Shafique Shaikh and others, filed a civil revision seeking relief against the respondents, Anees Ahmed Khan and another, concerning rent arrears under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act. The respondents moved an interim application (No. 9719 of 2025) seeking to compel the …
The petitioner, Navina Dinesh Shetty, challenged a 2003 appellate decree that reversed a trial court's finding that she was a tenant of a commercial shop and instead held her to be a mere licensee, ordering her to vacate and pay Rs.2,000 per month. The core issue was whether the caretaker agreements …
The applicant, claiming to be the grandson of a deceased tenant, sought a declaration that he was a tenant of Room B‑2 in Lal Bungalow under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999. The trial court had granted this relief, but the Small Causes Court on appeal set aside the decree, finding no evidence …
The original tenant filed a civil revision seeking to set aside eviction decrees on the grounds of alleged default in rent payment and alleged permanent alterations made without the landlord's consent. The tenant claimed he deposited the arrears after the deadline granted by the trial court and that …
The applicants, family members and tenants of three ground‑floor rooms in Gaurishankar Chawl, challenged a Small Causes Court decree ordering their eviction for non‑payment of rent and for alleged permanent alterations. The landlord had served a notice under Section 15 of the Maharashtra Rent …
The Applicants, members of a family, were tenants of three ground‑floor rooms in a Mumbai chawl owned by the Respondent firm. The landlord issued a notice under Section 15 of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 alleging non‑payment of rent of Rs 280.50 per month, leading to an eviction suit. The …
The Applicants, members of a family, were tenants of three ground‑floor rooms in a Mumbai chawl owned by the Respondent firm. The landlord issued a notice under Section 15 of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 alleging non‑payment of rent of Rs 280.50 per month, leading to an eviction suit. The …
The applicants filed a suit in 2015 for specific performance of a 2002 Memorandum of Understanding with the landlords (respondents 1‑3). In 2022 the landlords filed eight eviction suits in the Small Causes Court, Mumbai, under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act. The applicants sought, under Section 24 …
The applicants filed a suit in 2015 for specific performance of a 2002 Memorandum of Understanding with the landlords (respondents 1‑3). In 2022 the landlords filed eight eviction suits in the Small Causes Court, Mumbai, under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act. The applicants sought, under Section 24 …
The petition concerns a dispute over ownership and possession of a premises where the petitioner claims original ownership, while Respondent No.1 asserts rights based on a sale agreement dated 22 June 2004. Respondent filed an eviction application under Section 24 of the Maharashtra Rent Control …
The petition arose from a notice served under section 18(1) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 on 4 October 2024. The petitioner filed a reply with vakalatnama on 6 January 2025, i.e., 94 days later, exceeding the 30‑day period plus the 60‑day extension permitted under Order VIII, Rule 1 of …
The petitioner, Yogesh Shivaji Avhad, was licensed to occupy premises under a Leave and License Agreement that expired on 9 December 2022. He claimed an oral agreement to purchase the premises for Rs 1.75 crore, having paid Rs 15 lakhs as earnest money, and asserted that he remained in possession as …
The petitioners filed a writ petition challenging the maintainability of an eviction suit filed by the respondent under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, alleging that they were not recognized as tenants. The petitioners argued that the plaintiff had not acknowledged their tenancy, rendering …
The applicant Mohammed Ali challenged a decree that had been passed against him on the ground that he was a non‑user of the suit premises for more than six months prior to the filing of the suit. The trial court and the appellate court had both found that the premises were not used by the applicant …
The Bank of India filed six writ petitions challenging district court judgments that set aside eviction orders issued by an Estate Officer under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971. The respondents, occupants of the premises, argued that the eviction orders were passed …
Bank of India filed six writ petitions challenging district court judgments that set aside eviction orders issued by an Estate Officer under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971. The respondents, occupants of the premises, argued that the eviction orders violated …
The co‑owners of a building in Malad filed suits claiming the defendants were trespassers occupying flats on a purported licence basis, while the defendants contended that a sale agreement dated 15‑Feb‑2013 transferred title. The plaintiffs moved to dismiss the suits on the ground that the …
The co‑owners of a building in Malad, Mumbai (the respondents) sued the defendants for possession of flats, alleging the defendants were trespassers who occupied the flats as licencees without a valid leave‑and‑licence agreement. The defendants contended that a sale agreement dated 15 February 2013, …
The applicants, who are also defendants in a suit concerning the Rutton Manor building in Colaba, challenged a City Civil Court order that dismissed their motion to reject the plaint on the ground of exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Small Causes. The dispute centered on whether the suit, which …
The High Court examined a dispute arising under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 concerning Godown No. 16 and the land beneath it. The plaintiffs, heirs of the deceased Damji Gelabhai Shah, claimed ownership of both the land and the godown based on a conveyance deed dated 12‑December‑2002, …
The dispute concerned Godown No. 16 and the land beneath it in Lower Parel, Mumbai, governed by the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999. The original owners, New Sun Mills Co., had let the premises to Arvind Engineering Company in 1956 and later agreed to sell the godown for Rs 20,000 in 1981, while …
The petitioner, a former foreman of the respondent partnership firm, occupied a flat provided as a service tenant and refused to vacate after his employment ended in 2007. The respondent filed an eviction suit under Section 16(1)(f) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, and the petitioner …
Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd. (HOCL) occupied a premises leased from the Harchandrai family for over three decades before the landlords served a notice of termination in 2000 and obtained an eviction decree. After a protracted litigation spanning more than 25 years, the Supreme Court examined the …
The petitioners, owners of two flats in Mumbai, allowed the Police Department to occupy the premises temporarily in 1940 without any written requisition order. The police paid a nominal rent until 2007 and then stopped, prompting the petitioners to file a writ petition under Article 226 seeking …
The appellants, who bought a building in 1992, sought to evict two tenants after a municipal demolition notice was issued in 2002, invoking sections of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 relating to bona‑fide need, demolition and rent default. The trial and appellate courts granted eviction …
The petitioners, legal heirs of the deceased Balkrishna Rama Tarle, claimed tenancy rights over part of a mortgaged property and challenged the District Magistrate's refusal to assist the secured creditor, Phoenix Arc Private Limited, in taking possession under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act. The …
HDFC Bank granted a loan to borrowers who mortgaged a flat as security. When the borrowers defaulted, the bank issued a notice under Section 13(2) of the SARFAESI Act to take possession of the secured asset. The appellant, Hemraj Ratnakar Salian, claimed to be a tenant of the flat since June 2012 …
The appellant, who claimed to be a tenant of a flat mortgaged by the borrower to Central Bank of India, sought to stay the bank’s possession of the secured asset under the SARFAESI Act. The bank had issued a notice under Section 13(2) of the SARFAESI Act and obtained an order under Section 14 for …
The landlords sued the tenants for eviction under sections 16(1)(c), 16(1)(e) and 16(1)(n) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, alleging illegal sub‑letting, nuisance from a food‑stuff business and non‑use of the premises as a book‑shop for more than six months before the suit. The trial court …
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 …
The dispute arose from an eviction suit where the parties compromised, obligating the defendants to vacate the premises by a specified date and pay mesne profits for delay. The defendants failed to vacate, prompting the plaintiff to file an execution application which the executing court dismissed …
The appellant, a tenant, challenged the Bank of India's attempt to take possession of a mortgaged premises under the SARFAESI Act after the landlord defaulted on a loan. The Court examined whether Section 35 of the SARFAESI Act, a non obstante clause, could override the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, …
The appellants, who were tenants of premises mortgaged to banks, challenged the seizure of those premises by the secured creditors under the SARFAESI Act. The Supreme Court examined whether a lease made by the mortgagor, either before or after the mortgage, remains valid and binding on the secured …
The landlord filed a suit for eviction of tenants occupying an open plot in Pune. The tenants contended that the Pune Municipal Corporation had acquired the land under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, and that an award passed by the Special Land Acquisition Officer had divested the landlord of any …
The Central Bank of India, as landlord, obtained an eviction order against N.R.C. Ltd., a tenant occupying its premises. The Supreme Court, after dismissing the tenant's special leave petition, granted the landlord time until December 2014 to regain possession, conditioned on the tenant filing an …
Dr. Suhas H. Pophale occupied a flat in the Indian Mercantile Mansion under a leave‑and‑license agreement dated 20‑12‑1972, which was later deemed a tenancy under Section 15A of the Bombay Rent Act (effective 1‑Feb‑1973). The premises became owned by Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd., a government‑owned …
The appellant, a landlord, sought to evict a tenant occupying a flat owned by his father under a licence agreement with a company that later went into winding up. While the eviction suit was pending, the appellant applied under section 446 of the Companies Act, 1956 for the court's permission to …
The Parsee Girls' School Association, a public trust, leased two floors of its school building to New India Assurance Company Ltd. (NIAC) in 1954. NIAC sub‑let the premises to the Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Maharashtra in 1959 without the trust's consent. The trust sought …
The appellant, Banatwala & Co., a tenant of premises owned by Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), sought fixation of standard rent and restoration of essential services under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 after the landlord raised rent and failed to repair a lift. The respondents …
The National Textile Corporation Ltd. (NTC) occupied premises that were originally leased to Poddar Mills, a textile undertaking taken over by the Central Government under the Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Act, 1995. The owners of the premises filed an eviction suit under the Maharashtra …
The Board of Trustees of the Port of Mumbai, as landlord, sued M/s Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Pvt. Ltd. (tenant) and its sub‑tenant Wadi Sunder Cotton Press Co. for eviction on the ground of unlawful sub‑letting under the Bombay Rent Act, 1947. The trial court and the High Court held that the sub‑lease …
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) entered into a Dispensing Pump and Selling Licence (DPSL) agreement with Chembur Service Station, appointing it as a dealer to sell BPCL's petroleum products. After a surprise inspection revealed alleged manipulation of a dispensing unit, BPCL issued a …
FGP Ltd., a public limited company, occupied a flat in Mumbai under a tenancy agreement dated 16‑07‑1981. The legal representatives of the original owner filed a suit for possession under the Bombay Rent Act, 1947, claiming reasonable and bona‑fide requirement; the Small Causes Court, the appellate …
The State of Maharashtra, as landlord, obtained a decree of ejectment against M/s Super Max International, the tenant, under sections 13(3)(a) and 13(1)(g) of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, on grounds of tax defaults and the landlord's bona‑fide need. The High …
The landlords sought eviction of Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. (OIC) from premises in Thane, arguing that OIC, a Government company under Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956, was exempt from protection under Section 3(1)(b) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999. The High Court held that …
The Supreme Court examined who must lead evidence first in eviction proceedings under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971. New India Assurance Company Ltd., a State under Article 12, sought to evict tenants NUSLI Neville Wadia and others from a building it owned. The …
Carona Ltd., a public limited company with paid‑up share capital exceeding Rs. 1 crore, was let a premises by a partnership landlord. After defaulting on rent, the landlord gave notice terminating the tenancy on 31 March 2001 and filed an eviction suit. While the suit was pending, the tenant passed …
The appellant, Depot Superintendent HP Corporation Ltd., held a lease for a petrol pump in Kolhapur that expired in December 1989. It claimed renewal for 30 years under Section 7(3) of the Caltex (Acquisition of Shares of Caltex) Oil Refining Act, 1977, asserting that the renewal was automatic. The …
The Supreme Court examined several civil appeals and a writ petition challenging Section 3(1)(b) of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, which exempts premises let to government, banks, public sector undertakings, foreign missions, multinational companies and private/public limited companies with …
Crawford Bayley & Co., a firm of advocates, challenged the termination of its tenancy in a bank‑owned building and the subsequent show‑cause notice issued by an Estate Officer under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971. The firm argued that Section 3 of the Act and its …
The Bombay Port Trust (BPT), an instrumentality of the State, engaged consultants to value its land and proposed a massive rent revision for its lessees, issuing notices of termination and higher rent. Lessees challenged the revision as arbitrary and violative of Article 14, leading a Single Judge …
The Central Bank of India, a tenant, faced eviction proceedings initiated by the landlords under the Bombay Rents Act, which were initially dismissed in its favour. After the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 came into force, the landlords invoked Section 3(1)(b) to terminate the tenancy, leading …
