Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001

The landlord Harbans Kaur let two shops to Iqbal Singh in 1995 at Rs 8,500 per month with a contractual 10 % annual increase, which raised the rent to Rs 16,564 by 2003. The Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001 came into force on 1 April 2003. The landlord served a notice on 27 March 2004 demanding arrears of Rs 16,564 per…

The appellant, a tenant, sought possession of a shop owned by the respondent. A civil suit for possession was filed in 2013, before the Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001 (the Act) applied to the area. During the suit, the State Government notified that the Act would become effective on 11 May 2015, and the civil court p…

The landlord (Ravi Khandelwal) filed an eviction suit in 1985 against the tenant (M/s Taluka Stores) for a shop in Jaipur. The suit was dismissed by the trial court in 2002 for violating Section 14(3) of the Rajasthan Premises (Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1950, which bars eviction suits within five years of lett…

M/s Chakreshwari Construction Pvt. Ltd., the owner of a shop leased to Manohar Lal, filed an eviction petition under the Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001 alleging subletting and lack of alternative accommodation. After the trial evidence was closed, the appellant sought to amend the petition under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC t…

The suit for eviction and recovery of rent was filed in 2002 under the Rajasthan Premises (Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1950 (Old Act). The suit was decreed in 2016 and affirmed on appeal, but the parties remained in dispute over mesne profits during the stay of execution. The tenants argued that Section 20 of th…

The appellant, a tenant, was ordered by the Rent Tribunal to vacate the premises within six months and to pay arrears of rent. The High Court later directed the tenant to deposit the arrears by 31 December 2017 and to pay mesne profits from 1 November 2017. The tenant failed to meet the deadline, applied for an extensi…