Mumbai Court May 1980 Judgments

Gulabchand Ramchand JaIn Vs. Noorbeg Umarbeg Mirza

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: AIR1980Bom307

ORDER1. A two storeyed house in Amalner Town of Jalgaon District is tenanted by the petitioner in this petition and the respondent is the owner of the said house and, therefore, the landlord of the petitioner. The annual rent of the house, which will hereinafter be referred to as 'the suit premises', is Rs. 500. That rent was fixed in the year 1957 when the petitioner took the suit premises on lease from the respondent, both for residence and business. It has been found by the two Courts below that though the rent is calculated at Rs. 500 per annum it is payable by the month at the rate of Rs. 41.65. The suit out of which the present proceedings have arisen is Regular Civil Suit No. 77 of 1971 filed by the respondent in the Court of the Civil Judge, Junior Division at Amalner for possession of the suit premises on the grounds that the petitioner has failed to pay the arrears of rent, which were for a period of more than six months, within one month after the notice under Section 12(2) ...