https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=126823 Refusal of a duly addressed and registered demand notice raises a rebuttable presumption of effective service, including knowledge of its contents, so actual proof that the tenant opened or read the envelope is unnecessary; on that basis, wilful default in payment of rent could be established. The rent-control bar was construed so that prior permission of the District Magistrate was not required where eviction was sought on a specified statutory ground, making the suit maintainable without such permission. A dissent would have treated refusal as insufficient to prove knowledge and would not have applied the arrears ground to a yearly tenancy. en-us Fri, 20 Feb 1981 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:23:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=126823 Refusal of a duly addressed and registered demand notice raises a rebuttable presumption of effective service, including knowledge of its contents, so actual proof that the tenant opened or read the envelope is unnecessary; on that basis, wilful default in payment of rent could be established. The rent-control bar was construed so that prior permission of the District Magistrate was not required where eviction was sought on a specified statutory ground, making the suit maintainable without such permission. A dissent would have treated refusal as insufficient to prove knowledge and would not have applied the arrears ground to a yearly tenancy. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 20 Feb 1981 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=126823