GIRDHARI LAL JAIN Vs. SUSHIL RANI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Respondent Sushila Rani (hereinafter referred to as the landlady) sought the eviction of Girdhari Lal Jain, tenant-petitioner, (hereinafter referred to as the tenant) from the house in question un the ground, inter alia that the house was needed for her personal use and occupation as well as for her husband and children.

(2.) Mr. S. C. Goyal the learned counsel for the tenant-petitioner has not challenged the finding of the appellate authority with regard to the relationship of landlady and tenant between the parties. He has submitted that the Courts below erred in assuming that the ejectment had been sought by the landlady on the ground of insufficiency of accommodation in the old joint family house in which, at the time of the filing of the ejectment-application she with her husband and children was residing In view of the aforesaid concession of Mr. Goyal the only question that has to be examined is as to whether the Courts below are right in assuming that the ejectment was sought and justified on a plea of insufficiency of accommodation in the old joint family house. Her pleadings in this regard are contained in clause (b) of para 4 of he ejectment application, which is in the following terms:-

(3.) Evidence was, however, led to establish the ground that the said old joint Family house contained accommodation which was insufficient for all the members of the family. This evidence evidently was irrelevant to the pleadings, for it was not the case of the applicant landlady in her pleadings that the accommodation in the old joint family house was insufficient and for that reason the house under occupation of the tenant was needed by her for her personal use and occupation.