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 impugned before it. We approve the view of this Court in Rukmini Amma Sara...