MEENAKSHI ARYA vs SHALINI RAJPAL & ANR.

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$~100 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 29th April, 2025 + RFA(COMM) 238/2025 & CM APPLs. 25352/2025, 25353/2025 & 25354/2025 MEENAKSHI ARYA .....Appellant Through: Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv. with Appellant in person. (M: 9811070721) versus SHALINI RAJPAL & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Ajay Gupta, Adv. CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUSTICE RAJNEESH KUMAR GUPTA Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral) 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. CM APPL.25353-54/2025 (for exemption) 2. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Applications are disposed of. RFA(COMM) 238/2025 & CM APPL.25352/2025 (for stay) 3. The present first appeal has been filed by the Appellant- Meenakshi Arya, inter alia, challenging the impugned judgment and decree dated 22nd March, 2025 passed in CS (Comm) No. 523/2024 titled ‘Shalini Rajpal & Anr. vs. Meenakshi Arya’ by Ld. District Judge, Commercial Court-04, West District Tis Hazari Court, Delhi. 4. The appeal arises out of the rent agreement dated 30 thSeptember, 2019 entered into between the parties in respect of the property bearing LIG Flat No.164-A, Ground Floor, Housing Estate at Rajouri Garden, New Delhi RFA(COMM) 238/2025 Page 1 of 8 Signature Not Verified Signed By:RAHUL Signing Date:05.05.2025 19:21:58 (hereinafter, ‘property’). The tenant – Ms. Meenakshi Arya i.e. Appellant is running a jewellery shop in the said property. In terms of the rent agreement, the monthly rent was fixed at Rs.85,000/- and, thereafter, the same was to be increased. Some of the relevant terms and conditions contained in the Rent Agreement are set out below: “1. That the above said premises has been let out by the landlord to the tenant on the above said fixed and agreed monthly rent of Rs.85,000/- per month and the tenant shall not c