Supreme Court of India

Rajendra Diwan v. Pradeep Kumar Ranibala & Anr.

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Bench Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M. R. Shah and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 10 December 2019

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the State Legislature lacked legislative competence to enact Section 13(2) of the Rent Control Act.

Judgment, page 39

From the headnote

Chhattisgarh Rent Control Act, 2011 – s. 13(2) – Appeal against an order of the Rent Control Tribunal to Supreme Court – Validity of s.13(2) – Held: On a conjoint reading of Art. 323B and Arts. 245 and 246 with Entry 18 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule, the Chhattisgarh State Legislature was competent to enact the Rent Control Act, to the extent that it provides for the adjudication of original disputes relating to tenancy and rent by the Rent Controller, and creates a Tribunal to decide appeals from orders of the Rent Controller – However, Entry 64 of the State List and Entry 46 of…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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