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Smt. Pushpa Devi & Ors. v. Milkhi Ram

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Reported as [1990] 1 S.C.R. 278
Bench K. Jagannatha Sheity and N.M. Kasliwal JJ.
Decided 8 February 1990

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5 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the obligation to tender the rent o under the proviso on the first hearing date does not depend upon the existence of admitted jural relationship of landlord and tenant.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949: Section 2(h)(i) 'Tenant'-Meaning and scope of-Whether includes a person claiming to be a tenant. Section 13(2)(i)-Proviso-Tendering of rent arrears-Benefit available to a person claiming to be a tenant-Existence of admitted jural relationship of landlord and tenant not necessary. > Statutory interpretation: Statute-interpretation c/ause--Defini- )' lion of a word-Governs that word used in the Statute unless the context requires otherwise-'The context'-'lnternal context'-'External context'-What is. The respondent-landlord filed an eviction petition

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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