In a key judgement, the Supreme Court recently ruled that a co-owner of a property qualifies as a co-landlord under the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, and is therefore, entitled to initiate tenant eviction proceedings, regardless of whether they possess an exclusive title to the property or even a formal partition with her family members.
The Supreme Court delivered this judgement (reportable, dated May 15, 2026, case no. 2026 INSC 496) in a tenant eviction case filed in July 1993 by Smt. D'Silva and her sister against the legal heirs of their father's tenant Mr Lacerda (now deceased).
