An Eviction Court Decides The Landlord-Tenant Relationship, Not Title, And Tenancy Can Be Oral: Patna High Court Affirms Eviction On Personal Necessity

The Patna High Court has dismissed a civil revision and affirmed the eviction of a couple from three rooms let to them by the wife’s sister on the ground of the landlady’s bona fide personal necessity. The Court held that in an eviction proceeding the court decides only whether a landlord-tenant relationship exists, not the question of title, which must be agitated in a separate suit; that a tenancy may be established by oral evidence; and that its revisional jurisdiction does not extend to reappreciating concurrent findings.

Patna High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail to BSF Jawan in Marriage Promise Assault Case

The Patna High Court, in a recent judgment, has granted anticipatory bail to a Border Security Force (BSF) Jawan who was accused of deceiving and sexually assaulting a woman under the guise of a marriage proposal. The court, after examining the evidence, deduced that there was no indication that the promise of marriage was insincere […]