As per case facts, a plot of land was leased for a petrol pump, with the lessee obligated to remove any structures built upon lease expiry. The original lessee constructed ... three structures and inducted occupants. Subsequent lease deeds also maintained these conditions. When the lease terminated, the lessees initially received protection under the Bombay Rent Act. However, with the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, protection for open land ceased. The landlords then filed a suit against the heirs of the lessees. Some defendants disclaimed tenancy, while others, as heirs of the last surviving joint tenant, entered into consent terms to surrender their tenancy rights. When the landlords attempted to execute the eviction decree, the occupants of the structures obstructed, claiming independent rights as lawful sub-tenants. The Trial Court allowed the eviction, but the Appellate Court reversed this decision, erroneously concluding the decree was incomplete and the obstructionists were lawful sub-tenants based on a misinterpretation of the lease deed and tenancy inheritance. The landlords then appealed to the High Court.The central legal question before the High Court was whether the obstructionists, claiming rights through sub-tenancy in structures built on leased land, could resist an eviction decree obtained by the landlords against the original lessees, especially when the original lease was specifically for open land with an obligation for the lessees to remove any constructed structures upon its termination, and given the Appellate Court's findings on lawful sub-tenancy were based on fundamentally erroneous assumptions.Finally, the High Court held that the Appellate Court's judgment was perverse and unsustainable, being based on a misreading of the lease deed and an incorrect assumption about the subsistence of tenancy rights among numerous heirs. The Court clarified that the lease was for open land, and lessees had a clear contractual obligation to remove structures upon lease expiry. Persons inducted into structures built by a lessee, even with permission, do not automatically become tenants or sub-tenants of the lessor and do not enjoy independent statutory protection under rent control legislation when the principal lease terminates. Therefore, their right to occupy the structures ends automatically with the termination of the lessee’s rights, and they are legally bound to vacate the structures, enabling the landlords to recover vacant possession of the demised land.