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OM PRAKASH vs MANGI LAL on 15 July, 2008

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C.A. No.-004384-004384 - 2008Official PDFBench Tarun Chatterjee, Aftab AlamAdvocates SARAD KUMAR SINGHANIA
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO.4384 OF 2008
(Arising out of SLP(C)No.845 of 2007)
OM PRAKASH .....APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
MANGI LAL ....RESPONDENT(S)
O R D E R

Leave granted.

This appeal is directed against the judgment and decree dated 4th December,

2006 passed in Civil Second Appeal No.384 of 2005 by the High Court of Rajasthan at

Jodhpur, by which the High Court had dismissed the Second Appeal filed by the

appellant and affirmed the judgment and decree of the courts below decreeing the suit

for eviction. The only ground that was agitated by the learned counsel for the appellant

was that the High Court had failed to consider that the eviction decree was passed

without coming to a positive finding of relationship of landlord and tenant between the

parties.

After going through the impugned judgment of the High Court, we find that the

appellant had not seriously pressed the Second Appeal before it. The appellant only

asked for reasonable time to vacate the premises in question. We note that the three

courts below concurrently found that there was relationship of landlord and tenant and

also found that the respondent was entitled to a decree of eviction on the ground of

nuisance and denial of the title by the appellant Such being the position, we find no

reason to interfere with the concurrent findings of facts which are not available for

attack before us. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed. There will be no order as to

costs. Interim order, if any, stands vacated.

It is an admitted position that the appellant is running a tea shop in the premises

in question and in view of the order of the High Court he has already enjoyed one and

half year, which had expired in the year 2006. Even then, in view of the fact that he is

running a tea shop in the premises in question, we direct that the appellant shall vacate

the premises in question on or before 31st July, 2009 subject to filing of usual

undertaking in this Court within four weeks from this date.