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Issues: (i) Whether the petitioner could be treated as a widow falling within the specified category of landlord under Section 23-J of the Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961. (ii) Whether the matter should be remitted for fresh consideration of the petitioner's entitlement to seek eviction as a divorced wife and for a fresh decision on bona fide requirement.
Issue (i): Whether the petitioner could be treated as a widow falling within the specified category of landlord under Section 23-J of the Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961.
Analysis: The evidence showed that the petitioner's husband had deserted her and there was no reliable material proving his death. The expression "widow" was understood in its ordinary and legal sense as a woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried. The presumption drawn from absence of knowledge about the husband's existence was held insufficient to establish widowhood on the facts proved.
Conclusion: The petitioner was not entitled to be treated as a widow under Section 23-J.
Issue (ii): Whether the matter should be remitted for fresh consideration of the petitioner's entitlement to seek eviction as a divorced wife and for a fresh decision on bona fide requirement.
Analysis: The petitioner had not claimed eviction on the footing of being a divorced wife, no issue had been framed on that basis, and no evidence had been led specifically on that question. Since the case could be examined under the special category of a divorced wife, fairness required an to amend pleadings and adduce evidence. The finding on bona fide requirement was also not finally affirmed and was left open for fresh adjudication by the authority.
Conclusion: The order of dismissal was set aside and the matter was remitted for fresh decision in accordance with law after allowing amendment and evidence on the relevant issues.
Final Conclusion: The revision succeeded to the extent that the impugned order was annulled and the controversy was sent back for reconsideration on the petitioner's proper statutory status and consequential entitlement, leaving the merits of bona fide requirement open for fresh determination.
Ratio Decidendi: A claim to the special landlord category of "widow" requires proof of the husband's death, and where the pleaded factual basis does not support that status, the case may be remitted to permit adjudication on any legally sustainable alternative status before deciding eviction rights.
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