Supreme Court of India

Prabhu v. Ramdev & Ors.

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Reported as [1966] 3 S.C.R. 676
Decided 28 February 1966

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the view taken by the Board about the status of the respondents is right and the High Court was, therefore, justified in dismissing the appellant's writ petition filed before it.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Transfer of Property Act (4 of 1882), s. 16(e)-Tenants inducted by mortgagee-When ca11 continue in possession after tenninttion of nrortgage. The appellant's father created a usufructuary mortgage of the land m dispute and the mortgagee admitted the respondents as tenants. During the continuance of the mortgage and while the respondents were in po!· session as tenants, the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955, came into ~orce. lbe mortgage was eventually redeemed but the respondents con!lnued in possession. The appellant therefore sued for possession of the land before the revenue authorities and the

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