VISHNAWATI Vs. BHAGWAT VITHU CHOWDHRY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS second Civil Ap peal arises out of a suit for ejectment from a house and recovery of arrears of rent. The suit was decreed by the trial Court and an appeal from the judgment and decree of the trial Court was dismissed.

(2.) THE suit was instituted by Bhagwat Vithu Chowdhry (respondent in this appeal) against Smt. Vishnawati (appel lant in this appeal) claim ing that he had terminated the tenancy by notice to quit and had obtained the permission of the District Magistrate under Section 3 of the U. P. (Temporary) Control of Rent and Eviction Act, 1947 to get over the bar to the institution of the suit created under that Section. Admittedly the ap pellant's husband Gaya Prasad Shukla was originally the tenant of the house on a monthly rent of Rs. 35 from its former owner Lala Mangli Prasad. The house was sold by Lala Mangli Prasad to one Smt. Vidyawati. The latter in turn sold it to the respondent. After the purchase of the house, which professedly was for the purpose of his own residence, the respondent obtained the District Magis trate's permission dated 8-8-1966 to sue the tenant for eviction. He had already given a notice dated 24-3-1966 to the ap pellant terminating the tenancy and ask ing for vacation of the premises. The plaintiff filed a revision before the Com missioner but the same was dismissed on 20-1- 1967. The suit was instituted the same day.

(3.) AS to the plea of the notice being invalid on the ground that it was not given after the grant of permission by the District Magistrate, not again after the confirmation of the District Magistrate's order by the Commissioner, the learned Additional Munsif who tried the suit held that it was not necessary to give the notice after the grant of permission and that it could be given before that. The plea has not been pressed again at least in this Court and for obvious reasons, as it has been held in several decisions of this Court that it is not necessary that the notice under Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act be given only after the permission to evict has been obtained. About the additional ground (raised by an amendment of the written statement) that the notice was bad be cause it had been both addressed to and served upon the appellant alone though Gaya Prasad Shukla had left other heirs and the tenancy devolved upon those other heirs also, the learned Munsif held that the appellant alone had been acting as and asserting herself to be, the ten ant and had for all practical purposes been recognised as the tenant and she was thus the sole tenant. He was fur ther of the opinion that even if the sons and daughters had inherited the tenancy rights they had impliedly surrendered those rights in favour of their mother. For these reasons he held th.e notice to have been rightly given to the appellant alone.