Overview

• A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Manoj Misra asked the Bombay High Court chief justice to obtain reports from subordinate courts on pending landlord-tenant matters and propose time-bound resolutions
• The Supreme Court warned that delays leave landlords without income and force tenants to arrange large payments at short notice once cases conclude
• In the 25-year dispute over Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd’s occupation of Mumbai’s Harchandrai House, the court upheld the high court’s mesne profit rate while reducing interest on outstanding dues from 8% to 6%
• The tenant in the HOCL case has been ordered to pay all outstanding dues within three months of the Supreme Court’s ruling
• The intervention addresses systemic judicial backlogs and aims to ensure that similar property disputes are resolved within clear deadlines