Mumbai, Dec. 30 -- The Supreme Court has held that a tenant cannot dictate to a landlord which accommodation should be treated as suitable for the landlord's bona fide requirement, nor can the tenant compel the landlord to start a business at premises suggested by the tenant.

The bench, comprising Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Vijay Bishnoi, allowed an appeal filed by a landlord and set aside a Bombay High Court order that had overturned eviction decrees passed by the Trial Court and the First Appellate Court.

Case Background

The dispute involved a ground-floor commercial premises at Kamathipura, Nagpada, Mumbai. The landlord filed for eviction on the ground of bona fide requirement, intending to use the space for his daughter-in-l...