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Rakapalli Raja Rama Gopala Rao v. Naragani Govinda Sehararao & Anr.

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Reported as [1989] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 115
Bench K. Jagannatha Shetty and A.M. Ahmadi JJ.
Decided 12 September 1989

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What the Court ordered

In the result we allow this appeal and set aside the eviction decree.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

P. Buildings (Lease, Rent & Eviction) Control Act, 1960: Sec­ tion 10(2)-Tenant-Eviction-On ground of 'wilful default'-To be shown default was intentional, deliberate, calculated and conscious with full knowledge, of its consequences. Non-payment of rent by tenant under bona fide belief that he was entitled to purchase property under a prior oral agreement pursuant to which he paid earnest money-Whether 'wilful'. Words and Pharases: 'Wilful'-Me~ning of. The respondents purchased the demised premises by a registered sale-deed dated 7th December, 1977 for Rs. 70,000. The appellant was in actual

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 5 mentioned

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