Civil Court Jurisdiction Excluded From Landlord-Tenant Disputes Covered Specifically By State Rent Acts

Case: Subhash Chander And Ors. v. M/s. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) And Anr.

Corum: Justices Ajay Rastogi and Abhay S. Oka

Case No.: Civil Appeal No. 7517 of 2012

Court Observation: “…that being the complete code determining the rights of a tenant/landlord to the exclusion of the other laws, we find no error in the view expressed by the High Court in the impugned judgment holding that the jurisdiction of the Civil Court is held to be barred and remedial mechanism for ejectment could be possible only under the provisions of the Act 1973.”

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