https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275541 The amendment excluding tenancies of municipal and other public lands from the Madras City Tenants Protection Act, 1922 was upheld as a rational classification, because public bodies were not similarly situated to private landlords and the tenant's interest under the Act was only a statutory privilege. The exclusion was treated as operating retrospectively, so no vested or accrued right survived in pending or subsisting tenancies, since the Section 9 protection arose only on contingent statutory steps. A registered lease covenant requiring removal of the superstructure and vesting of the building in the municipality was also enforced as falling within the proviso to Section 12. The tenant therefore could not claim statutory protection against eviction. en-us Tue, 25 Jan 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:23:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275541 The amendment excluding tenancies of municipal and other public lands from the Madras City Tenants Protection Act, 1922 was upheld as a rational classification, because public bodies were not similarly situated to private landlords and the tenant's interest under the Act was only a statutory privilege. The exclusion was treated as operating retrospectively, so no vested or accrued right survived in pending or subsisting tenancies, since the Section 9 protection arose only on contingent statutory steps. A registered lease covenant requiring removal of the superstructure and vesting of the building in the municipality was also enforced as falling within the proviso to Section 12. The tenant therefore could not claim statutory protection against eviction. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 25 Jan 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275541