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The Supreme Court has said a caretaker/servant can never acquire interest in the property irrespective of his long possession and he has to vacate the premises on owner’s demand.

The SC set aside the order of a trial court and high court which had refused to allow a plea of an owner for not proceeding on a suit filed by a caretaker seeking that he be not vacated from the premises.

The trial judge had dismissed the application on the premise that these are the subject matter of disputes which can be examined only after the written statement being filed at the behest of the owner and is not within the scope of Order VII Rule 11, Civil Procedure Code and that order was confirmed by the high court. Order 7 Rule 11(d) of CPC provides that the plaint shall be rejected “where the suit appears from the statement in the plaint to be barred by any law”.

"It is my goal to throw BJP out of India in the next three years," Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee has said. Campaigning for the upcoming bypolls in two seats of Murshidabad, he said, "Will go to every BJP seat and dethrone them. What will their ED, CBI do? Nothing."

Bypolls will be held in two seats of Murshidabad - Samserganj and Jangipur - on September 30, where polling was countermanded during the eight-phase assembly elections due to the death of candidates.

"BJP's development is only restricted to changing names. Had they won in Murshidabad, they would rename it as ModiShahBad," he said.

Daily cases of Covid-19 in India remained around the 32,000 mark for the second day running, with Kerala cases staying below 20,000 for the sixth day but neighbouring Tamil Nadu continuing to witness a gradual rise in infections. Meanwhile, with Kerala consistently reporting more recoveries than new infections, active cases in the country dipped below the 3-lakh mark for the first time in over six months since March 19 this year. At nearly 1.6 lakh, Kerala has more than half of all active cases in the country.

India recorded 31,407 fresh cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, as compared with 32,028 on the previous day. India recorded 318 deaths from the virus on Thursday. Kerala reported 152 fatalities, Maharashtra 61, Tamil Nadu 27, Karnataka 15 and Bengal 12.

Widespread rain is likely in Uttarakhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh till Sunday, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD) as the monsoon is likely to intensify again as a low-pressure area is likely to form over the northeast and the east-central Bay of Bengal on Friday.

The monsoon trough is lying to the south of its normal position and is likely to remain so during the next five days. A cyclonic circulation is lying over north Chhattisgarh and neighbourhood. It is likely to move west-north-westwards across north Madhya Pradesh during the next three days.

Another cyclonic circulation is lying over West Rajasthan and neighbourhood. Due to these meteorological factors, scattered to widespread and heavy rainfall is likely in Uttarakhand till Sunday and in East Uttar Pradesh till Friday. The rainfall is likely to decrease in Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha. Widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rain is likely in East Rajasthan and Gujarat till Sunday. Widespread and heavy rain is likely in Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh till Thursday.