A tenant who came into possession of a rented property through a rent deed executed by a landlord cannot later turn around and challenge the landlord’s title, the Supreme Court observed in Jyoti Sharma v. Vishnu Goyal [2025 INSC 1099].
In this seven-decade-old landlord-tenant dispute, the Court observed that the tenants’ predecessors had taken the shop on rent from the original landowner and continued to pay rent to him, and later to his son after his death.
Therefore, the Court ruled, the tenants were estopped (legally prevented) from questioning the title of the original landlord or his legal successor.
