Law: Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001

Section: 17

(a) Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance (IV of 2001)--- ----S. 17---Eviction of tenant---Bona fide need of landlord---Eviction through attorney---Periodic tenancys were co-owners of property who filed for eviction of respondents for bona fide personal need---Contention of respondents was that they were not tenants under petitioners and that eviction was not filed properly---Rent Controller allowed eviction but Lower Appellate Court denied the same---Validity---Where there was admission of relationship and it was in specific words, same was an admission of fact---Rent Controller and Lower Appellate Court rightly observed that respondents were tenants under the petitioners---Parties failed to produce original lease agreement but otherwise relationship was admitted---Tenancy could be treated as periodic based on frequency with which tenants paid rent---If landlord filed eviction application in such tenancies that application, meant that tenancy stood expired as landlord did not wish to continue with same---Expiry of lease was a valid ground for eviction of tenant under Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001---Personal bona fide need was a valid ground and also petitioners were well within their rights as co-owners in property to file an eviction application and same did not have to be filed by owners of property---High Court allowed eviction application filed by petitioners on grounds of personal bona fide need and expiry of lease agreement---High Court directed respon-dents to vacate premises---Constitutional petition was disposed of accordingly. Anees Haider v. Raja Maqsood Hussain PLD 2011 Lah. 273; Muhammad Faisal Ahmed and others v. Rent Controller West Islamabad and others (Civil Petitions Nos.4861 and 4862 of 2017); Abdul Samad Khan and 5 others v. Jamshed and 7 others 2015 MLD 1642; Mst. Khurshid Begum and 6 others v. Chiragh Muhammad 1995 SCMR 1237; Mst. Anwari Begum through Attorney v. Mst. Asghari Khanum and 7 others 2009 MLD 1279; Mst. Akhtar Fatima through Legal Heirs and another v. Bakhat Rafee Shah and another 2016 CLC 887; Mst. Nasira Afridi v. Muhammad Akbar 2015 MLD 171 and Qaiser Javed Malik v. Pervaiz Hameed and 2 others 2009 SCMR 846 ref.…

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