https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187520 Under the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, the majority construed "tenant" and the sub-letting scheme to include a statutory tenant, holding that a lawful sub-tenancy created before the statutory cut-off could attract direct tenancy protection under section 14 when the superior tenancy ended. It further held that section 52 of the Transfer of Property Act did not invalidate the sub-letting or defeat the sub-tenant's statutory claim, because lis pendens does not override the Act's protection. Shah, J. dissented, taking the view that a statutory tenant had no estate capable of sub-letting and that the protections applied only to contractual tenancies. en-us Thu, 05 Sep 1963 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:33:39 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187520 Under the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, the majority construed "tenant" and the sub-letting scheme to include a statutory tenant, holding that a lawful sub-tenancy created before the statutory cut-off could attract direct tenancy protection under section 14 when the superior tenancy ended. It further held that section 52 of the Transfer of Property Act did not invalidate the sub-letting or defeat the sub-tenant's statutory claim, because lis pendens does not override the Act's protection. Shah, J. dissented, taking the view that a statutory tenant had no estate capable of sub-letting and that the protections applied only to contractual tenancies. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 05 Sep 1963 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187520