High Court of Judicature at Bombay Dismisses Writ Petition by Tenants in Tenancy Dispute — Section 32F(1) of Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act Mandates Tenant to Give Intimation Within One Year of Widow Landlady's Death; Failure to Do So Extinguishes Right to Purchase. Landlady's earlier exercise of right under Section 31(1) to resume land for personal cultivation does not dispense with the statutory requirement of notice under Section 32F(1), and non-compliance results in loss of tenancy right and possession reverting to landlord under Section 32P.
3 Jun 2019The dispute arose from a tenancy over agricultural land in Satara district. The petitioners were tenants in possession since the tillers' day, and the...
