VILAS RAO KOLI vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR

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$~19 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 10.02.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 699/2018 & CRL.M.A. 30260/2018 VILAS RAO KOLI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. F. S. Chauhan, Advocate (Through VC) versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR .....Respondents Through: Ms. Richa Dhawan, APP for State % CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA JUDGMENT MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J (ORAL): 1. The present revision petition has been filed impugning the order dated 24.05.2018 passed by the Court of Shri Priyank Nayak, the learned Metropolitan Magistrate-03, Shahdara District, Karkardooma, Delhi [‘Trial Court’] in complaint Case R. No. 3480/16 registered at Police Station [P.S] Farsh Bazar. Arguments on behalf of the Petitioner 2. Learned counsel for the Petitioner states that Respondent No. 2 was the owner of the property bearing no. 111/208 at Ground Floor, Gali Ganga Ram, Chhota Bazar, Shahdara, Delhi (‘Subject Property’). He states that the said property consists of three shops and had already been let out by Respondent No. 2 Signature Not Verified Signed By:HEMANT PRATAP SINGH CRL.REV.P. 699/2018 Page 1 of 8 Signing Date:14.02.2025 11:31:00 2.1. He states that on 03.10.20001, the Subject Property was transferred in favour of the Petitioner herein by Respondent No. 2 on the basis of General Power of Attorney (‘GPA’) executed by wife of Kunj Behari Lai Sharma. He states that the Petitioner, thereafter, became the lawful owner of the subject property and had informed this fact to the tenants. 2.2. He states that the sale in favour of the Petitioner was duly witnessed by the son of Respondent No. 2. He states, however, when the Petitioner herein approached the tenants for collecting the rent, the tenants declined to pay the rent on the pretext that the Subject Property