SASWATI BHATTACHARYA Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition is directed against the judgment and/or order dated 12th June, 2013 passed by the West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal in Tribunal Application being O.A No. 2337/08 (LRTT) at the instance of the writ petitioners who were the applicants before the Learned Tribunal.

(2.) LET us now consider the merit of the instant writ petition in the facts of the present case. Admittedly, Chapala Sundari Devi, the predecessor -in -interest of the writ petitioners was the owner of Premises being No.115A , Rash Behari Avenue, Calcutta. The said Chapala Sundari Devi inducted one Udit Narayan Singh, the predecessor -in -interest of the private respondents in respect of the land  comprising in Premises No.115A, Rash Behari Avenue, Calcutta as monthly tenant thereof sometime in 1948. Chapala Sundari Devi died sometime in 1951. During her life -time, rent was realized from the said Udit Narayan Singh by grant of rent receipts describing the said Udit Narayan Singh as ''Thika Praja ''.

(3.) A dispute cropped up between the parties as to the nature of the tenancy of the said Udit Narayan Singh. To be more specific, whether Udit Narayan Singh can be accepted as a thika tenant or not in the said premises was the subject matter of dispute between them.