JUDGEMENT
J.C.Gupta, J. -
(1.) -Heard petitioners' counsel and learned counsel for the respondents
No. 3 and 4 as well as the learned Standing
Counsel.
(2.) Some of the undisputed facts are that
the landlord-petitioners filed an application
for the release under Section 21(l)(a) of the
U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972 before the Prescribed Authority against Mohd.
Farooq respondent No. 2, real brother of respondents
No. 3'and 4. The application for release of the
landlord-petitioners was allowed and the appeal filed by the respondent.No. 2 tenant was
also dismissed on 22.7.1984. Thereafter Mohd.
Farooq-respondent No. 2 filed writ petition
No. 14615 of 1984. The said writ petition
was dismissed on merits on 22.11.1984 and
an undertaking was given on behalf of the
tenant-Mohd. Farooq that he would vacate
the building in question within six months.
When the undertaking given by the tenant
was not respected, the petitioner moved a
contempt petition in this court as well, as filed
an application under Section 23 of the Act of
the enforcement of the release order and for
obtaining possession of the house in question. When the occasion to enforce the order
arose, for the first time at this stage respondent Nos. 3 and 4 objected to the delivery of
possession and they filed civil suit against the
petitioner for an injunction restraining him
from evicting them otherwise than in due
course of law, A prayer for interim injunction
was also made in that suit which was refused
by the trial court. In the appeal filed by respondents
No. 3 and 4, a temporary injunction was
granted in their favour which was challenged
by the petitioner in this court in a writ petition.
In that writ petition which is also connected
with this writ petition, an interim order was
passed that respondent Nos. 3 and 4 may put
their grievances in the form of objections
before the court executing the release order
under Section 23 of the Act. The respondents
No. 3 and 4 then filed objections inter alia
pleading that in the house in question their
father; Rahim Buksh was the original tenant
and upon his death, tenancy was devolved
upon his three sons namely Mohd. Farooq
respondent No. 2, Mohd. Siddiq-respondent
No. 3 and Mohd. All-respondent No. 4 arid
since they were not impleaded as parties in
the release application moved by the petitipner,
the release order obtained by the petitioner was not binding upon them and
they could not be evicted in execution thereof.
In the impugned order the learned Prescribed
Authority accepted this objection of the respondents No. 3 and 4. Aggrieved, the petitioner
has approached this court in this writ petition.
(3.) Learned counsel for the petitioner
argued that even accepting the findings recorded by the Prescribed Authority, at best it
could be said that the respondents No. 3 and
4 inherited tenancy rights of their father as
joint tenants alongwith Mohd. Farooq-respondent No. 2 and,
therefore, the order passed
in the release application moved earlier is also
binding upon them.;
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