SC explains scope of revisional power of High Courts

Even the wider language of Section 20 of the Kerala Rent Control Act does not enable the High Court to act as a first or a second court of appeal. We are in full agreement with the view of the 3-Judge Bench in  Rukmini Amma Saradamma v. Kallyani Sulochana and others; [(1993) 1 SCC 499] that the word “propriety” does not confer power upon the High Court to re-appreciate evidence to come to a different conclusion but its consideration of evidence is confined to find out legality, regularity and propriety of the order impugne

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