Supreme Court of India

Praful Manohar Rele v. Smt. Krishnabai Narayan Ghosalkar & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 1 S.C.R. 44
Bench T.S. Thakur and Vikramajit Sen JJ.
Decided 3 January 2014

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What the Court ordered

In the result, this appeal succeeds and is, hereby allowed, the impugned judgment passed by the High Court is set aside and that passed by the first appellate Court is restored.

Judgment, page 15

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Leave and licence: c Licence - Suit for possession stating that defendants- respondents were gratuitous licensees - Alternative plea of eviction on ground of bona fide need - Held: Alternative plea would be redundant if plaintiff's case of defendants being gratuitous licensees was accepted by court - First appellate 0 court accepted plaintiff's case that defendants were in occupation as licensees and not as tenants - High Court has not set aside that finding of fact on its merits and dismissed the suit simply because the plea of tenancy was, in its opinion, contradictory to the plea of

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