In Brief
Tenant-appellants challenged a High Court order evicting them from a property owned by the respondents. The Supreme Court declined to decide whether the Uttar Pradesh Rent Control Act applied to trust property. Instead, it partly allowed the appeal, protecting the tenants' possession on the condition that they vacate by 30 June 2018, file an undertaking within four weeks, and continue paying existing use and occupation charges. The order balanced tenant protection with enforcement through contempt provisions for undertaking violations.
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