JYOTI SHARMA VS VISHNU GOYAL & ANR. (2025) – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Landlord-Tenant disputes occupy a significant space in civil litigation often raising complex questions of title, possession and the rights of parties spanning generations. The Doctrine of Tenant Estoppel is enshrined in Section 122 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam,2023 serves as the foundational principle preventing tenants from denying the title of the landlord who inducted them into possession. An equally well-established principle is that eviction proceedings do not require the same standard of proof of ownership as declaratory or title suits. This paper examines such case where the Supreme Court reaffirmed these principles arising from an eviction suit that had subsisted since 1953