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This is the text of the Act as it stood in undivided Madhya Pradesh before 1 November 2000, as published by India Code in its Chhattisgarh collection. India Code has no copy filed under Madhya Pradesh.
Square brackets mark words inserted or substituted by later amending Acts. This copy has no footnotes naming those Acts or their dates.
The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha lists of Acts passed from 2014 to 2026 show no Act amending this Act, and the Madhya Pradesh Jan Vishwas Acts of 2025 do not touch it. No official list of Acts for 2000 to 2013 could be checked. In September 2026 the Madhya Pradesh High Court quoted Section 23-J in the same words as this copy.
The Madhya Pradesh Parisar Kirayedari Adhiniyam, 2010 (Act No. 16 of 2012) repeals this Act from a date to be notified. The Madhya Pradesh High Court recorded in 2017 and 2018 that it had not been notified, and the High Court continues to apply this Act in 2026.
Raipur, Durg and the other Chhattisgarh areas named in the text and the First Schedule have been part of Chhattisgarh since 1 November 2000. References to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 and the Indian Penal Code, 1860 are printed as in the original.
This copy does not print the long title, the enacting formula or the date of assent.
Clauses (a), (c) and (d) of Section 29(1) are printed incomplete in this copy and are reproduced as printed.
The First Schedule and the Notifications are shown as printed in this copy and may not include later notifications extending the Act to other areas.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, where the interest of a tenant in any accommodation is determined for any reason whatsoever and any decree or order is passed by a Court under this Act for the recovery of possession of such accommodation, the decree or order shall, subject to the provisions of Section 16, be binding on all persons who may be in occupation of the accommodation and vacant possession thereof, shall be given to the landlord by evicting all such persons therefrom :
Provided that nothing in this Section shall apply to any person who has an independent title to such accommodation.
