https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200291 A tenancy agreement made in breach of a District Magistrate's letting order under the U.P. (Temporary) Control of Rent and Eviction Act is not void merely for that contravention. Section 10 of the Indian Contract Act invalidates a contract only where the consideration or object is unlawful or the contract is expressly declared void, and the rent-and-occupation arrangement here was neither unlawful in consideration nor forbidden in object. Breach of the administrative order may attract the Act's penalty or eviction consequences, but it does not by itself make the tenancy agreement opposed to public policy under Section 23. The contract was therefore treated as valid, and the reference was answered against voidness. en-us Wed, 06 Feb 1963 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:54:25 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200291 A tenancy agreement made in breach of a District Magistrate's letting order under the U.P. (Temporary) Control of Rent and Eviction Act is not void merely for that contravention. Section 10 of the Indian Contract Act invalidates a contract only where the consideration or object is unlawful or the contract is expressly declared void, and the rent-and-occupation arrangement here was neither unlawful in consideration nor forbidden in object. Breach of the administrative order may attract the Act's penalty or eviction consequences, but it does not by itself make the tenancy agreement opposed to public policy under Section 23. The contract was therefore treated as valid, and the reference was answered against voidness. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Feb 1963 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200291