Interest on arrears of rent is not rent under the Bengal Tenancy Act, so a suit for rent was not maintainable.

Interest on arrears of rent was held to be distinct from rent and outside the statutory definition of rent under the Bengal Tenancy Act; a suit confined to recovery of such interest was therefore not maintainable as a suit for rent. Revisional interference was available because no appeal lay from the decision of the Court of Appeal below, and the High Court set aside the concurrent decisions and dismissed the suit.

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Issues: Whether interest claimed on arrears of rent could be treated as rent under the Bengal Tenancy Act and recovered in a suit for rent, and whether the decree of the courts below could be interfered with in revision.

Analysis: Interest on rent is distinct from rent and does not fall within the statutory definition of rent under the Bengal Tenancy Act. A suit seeking recovery of interest only, apart from any claim for rent itself, is not maintainable as a suit for rent. As no appeal lay from the decision of the Court of Appeal below, the matter was fit for exercise of revisional jurisdiction.

Conclusion: The claim for interest on rent as rent was held not maintainable. Revisional interference was allowed, the decisions of the courts below were set aside, and the plaintiff's suit was dismissed.

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