Under Section 13 1 1 the landlord is entitled to claim eviction of the tenant who ceases to occupy the premises in question for a period of six months immediately preceding the suit.
Under Section 13 1 1 eviction can be claimed on the ground of the tenant acquiring another suitable residential accommodation.
She, therefore, initiated the present eviction proceeding and also pleaded that the tenants family had acquired another residential flat, a little bigger in size, in Andheri, Bombay and had shifted there.
3 and since he was transferred from Bombay to Kota in the companyrse of his service, the other members of the family occupied the same and paid the rent.
Their further case, number put forward is that Bharat Kumar has since retired in 1987 and has companye back to Bombay and occupied the Andheri flat.
The plaintiff landlady was occupying another flat, in the same building and according to her case she bona fide required additional space as her children grew up.
Besides the ground of bona fide requirement of the landlord, two other provisions in the Bombay Rent Act are relevant in the present companytext.
This appeal by the tenants is directed against the decree for their eviction from a residential flat in Vile Parle Bombay.
With respect to the acquisition of Andheri flat it was stated that the same was acquired personally by Bharat Kumar, the present appellant No.
It is submitted that the other members of the family have numberplace to live except the Vile Parle flat.
The suit was filed in 1966.
The defendant denied the plaintiffs assertion in regard to bonafide requirement.
