The Jharkhand High Court has quashed a notice by the Bihar State Financial Corporation directing tenants of an auctioned property to vacate merely because the premises had been sold. The Court held that the sale of a property is not a ground to evict a tenant, that eviction can proceed only on the grounds specified in the Jharkhand rent-control law, and that the corporation, having taken possession, steps into the landlord’s shoes, with the tenants liable to pay it rent until the property is transferred onward.
