PARAS MAL PATODI Vs. KANTA DEVI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By way of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has sought the following relief:

(2.) Learned counsel for the petitioner canvassed that the suit premises were initially let out to one Nemi Chand Parasmal Patodi. He further canvassed that about 10-12 years back, the petitioner and the defendant-respondent No. 2 occupied these two shops and became the tenant. The petitioner has been regularly depositing the rent with the respondent No. 1-landlord and the respondent No. 1-landlord has been issuing the receipts. These rent receipts tangibly suggest that the petitioner was the tenant in the suit premises and there was a relationship between the petitioner and the respondent No. 1 to that of tenant and landlord.

(3.) E Converso, learned counsel for the respondents has refuted the arguments advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner and contended that the petitioner was not at all the tenant nor suit premises were ever let out to him. So far as the receipts are concerned, the receipts were issued in favour of Satish Cycle Store. Learned counsel took me through para No. 1 of the application filed under Order 1 Rule 10 CPC and canvassed that shops No. 2 and 3 were let out to Nemi Chand Paras Mal Patodi about 52-53 years back and Nemi Chand Paras Mal Patodi was allegedly running his business in the name of style of Satish Cycle Store. The shop was never let out to the petitioner, who has been running his business in the name of Satish Cycle Company as this Company has come into existence for the first time in the year 2002. The mere fact that this Company came into existence in the year 2002 candidly suggests that the shop was never let out to the petitioner tenant. Learned counsel for the respondents further contended that the petitioner must have come in possession with the connivance of the original tenant, but that does not give him the status of tenant within the definition of "tenant" as laid down in the Rajasthan Premises (Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1950.