JAI NATH YADAV & ANR. vs SOMNATH YADAV ALIAS SHOBH NATH YADAV

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 06th August, 2025 CM(M) 3979/2024, CM APPL. 45227/2025 JAI NATH YADAV & ANR. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Pankaj Srivastav, Adv. versus SOMNATH YADAV ALIAS SHOBH NATH YADAV .....Respondent Through: Mr. R.N. Dubey, Advocate. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioners herein are defendants before the learned Trial Court and are defending a suit for possession, mesne profit, injunction and declaration filed by Mr. Somnath Yadav @ Shobh Nath Yadav (respondent herein). 2. According to the case of plaintiff, the suit property was let out to defendants at a monthly rent of Rs.23,000/- and the tenancy came to an end by efflux of time and despite determination of tenancy, neither the possession has been handed over, nor the rent has been cleared. It is in the abovesaid backdrop that the suit was filed. 3. When the suit was at the stage of final arguments, defendants moved two different applications. 4. By virtue of one application (application moved under Section 45 read with Section 73 of Indian Evidence Act), they wanted opinion from Central Forensic Science Laboratory, as according to them, Rent A