https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169920 Section 15 of the Bombay Hotel and Lodging Houses Rates Control Act, 1947 was treated as an absolute statutory prohibition on sub-letting, overriding contrary contractual terms; any agreement authorising sub-letting was therefore void and unenforceable as inconsistent with public policy and section 23 of the Contract Act. Read with section 13(1)(e), that prohibition entitled the landlord to recover possession where sub-letting occurred in breach of the Act, because the eviction claim enforced the statutory consequence, not the illegal bargain itself. The tenant's plea of waiver also failed, since a mandatory public-law prohibition could not be waived to validate the illegality, and the tenant could not rely on in pari delicto to defeat the statutory remedy. en-us Mon, 16 Feb 1959 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169920 Section 15 of the Bombay Hotel and Lodging Houses Rates Control Act, 1947 was treated as an absolute statutory prohibition on sub-letting, overriding contrary contractual terms; any agreement authorising sub-letting was therefore void and unenforceable as inconsistent with public policy and section 23 of the Contract Act. Read with section 13(1)(e), that prohibition entitled the landlord to recover possession where sub-letting occurred in breach of the Act, because the eviction claim enforced the statutory consequence, not the illegal bargain itself. The tenant's plea of waiver also failed, since a mandatory public-law prohibition could not be waived to validate the illegality, and the tenant could not rely on in pari delicto to defeat the statutory remedy. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 16 Feb 1959 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169920