Supreme Court of India

Rajendra Diwan v. Pradeep Kumar Ranibala & Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 17 S.C.R. 1089
Bench Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M. R. Shah and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 10 December 2019

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the S tate Legislature lacked legislative competence to enact Section 13(2) of the Rent Control Act.

Judgment, page 39

From the headnote

Chhattisgarh Rent Control Act, 2011 – s. 13(2) – Ap peal against an order of the Rent Control Tribunal to Supreme ourt – Validity of s.13(2) – Held: On a conjoint reading of Art. 323B and Arts. 245 and 246 with Entry 18 of the State List i n the Seventh Schedule, the Chhattisgarh State Legislature was competent t o enact the Rent Control Act, to the extent that it provide s for the adjudication of original disputes relating to tenan cy and rent by the Rent Controller, and creates a Tribunal to decide appeals f rom orders of the Rent Controller – However, Entry 64 of the S tate List and Entry

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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