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High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCR/4743/2012disposed of

Om Parkash Chaudhary v. Baldev Singh Mankoo

2026-01-15Mr. Justice Harkesh Manuja18 pages



   

   

   

                         

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since there was a joint tenancy of one shop and a hall against rent of ₹800 per month, two separate eviction petitions were not maintainable as the same amounted to splitting up of tenancy.

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@A  Furthermore, the plea raised by the petitioner-tenant regarding the incorrect site plan filed by the respondent-landlord is devoid of merits. A perusal of the site plan shows that the portion of the demised property beyond the shops and the hall is the property of the respondent and $#$(%0."&"+"(6&$8"+#./##." *&#$%*&*"&#:8"($+"((.*(/%+#."./77$(5/6/%#. Consequently, the site plan cannot be considered contrary to the factual situation at the location, as no prejudice was caused to the petitioner-tenant. This is especially true since no alternative site plan was ever submitted by the petitioner-tenant along with his application for leave to contest the site plan appended by the respondent-landlord in conjunction with the eviction petition. Moreover, it was nowhere pleaded by the petitioner that the remaining part of the property owned by respondent could be utilised by him for the purposes of setting up of his business. [12].

In the humble opinion of this Court, the plea raised on behalf of the petitioner-tenant with respect to the Will dated 17.02.1997 been not relied upon in the previous eviction petition preferred at the instance of the deceased father of the respondent-landlord has no material bearing in the given facts. Even if, in any previous eviction petition preferred at the instance of father of the respondentlandlord in the year 1995 against any of his tenant, and he died during the pendency, the Will dated 17.02.1997 was not relied upon for the purposes of pursuing the suit so as to implead the successors of the deceased father in the form of beneficiaries of the said Will, the same was not fatal to the cause of respondentlandlord in the eviction petition. At that time, the mother of the respondentlandlord being alive was primarily impleaded as the widow of the deceased Ram Lal Singh, there being no conflict of interest among the heirs. Moreover, the petitioner merely being tenant of the demised premises, it was never permissible

for him to question the validity of the Will dated 17.02.1997 which was in any case an arrangement of inheritance between the successors of deceased landlord Ram Lal Singh, nor the same having any bearing upon the rights of respondent-landlord to have sought eviction of the premises in question as admittedly, the father of respondent-landlord died on 29.09.2000, whereas the eviction petition was preferred on 20.04.2009 and even if it was presumed that there was no Will dated 17.02.1997, the respondent-landlord in any case had inherited the property in question being one of the legal heir of deceased Ram Lal Singh. @A 

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