Landlord vs tenant eviction case: Supreme Court rules in favour of landlord despite tenant’s son not signing rent receipts

Landlord and tenant related issues and cases are common. In one such case, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the landlord, even as the tenant’s son claimed that no rent receipts had been signed by him. What was the case and why did the Supreme Court find merit in the landlord's appeal? According to an ET report, H.S. Puttashankara, a property owner from Bengaluru, Karnataka, won in a tenant removal case. The apex court’s judgement established that as per the Karnataka Rent Act, 1999, rental receipts bearing the landlord’s signature sufficiently prove the existence of a landlord-tenant relationship. This decision emerged after the tenant contested the existence of such a relationship. The dispute primarily focused on establishing whether a landlord-tenant relationship existed be