“10. It is a matter of common knowledge that the roads in Delhi are spilling over with vehicular traffic. While vehicles on the road are ever increasing in numbers, the parking space available on the roads has shrunk on account of development work and road expansion activities undertaken by the civic authorities. Thus, the stress and strain of living in a metropolitan city is most visible on the roads, where competing claims are often sought to be resolved by use of muscle power. Every other day there are reports of altercations and ugly disputes, sometimes resulting in physical assault and murder, sparked off from paucity of parking space for vehicles. In such circumstance, the insistence on the part of the petitioner/tenant that the respondent/landlord, who is a senior citizen, aged 82 years, ought not to use the space available as a garage in his own premises, for purposes of parking his car, and instead, put it to use for running a shop, is wholly untenable and cannot be sustained. In today’s day and time, parking of the car by the respondent/landlord in a portion of his residence facing the road, which he has designated as a garage, cannot be called a luxury, but a sheer necessity, particularly, when even the civic authorities have woken up to the need of imposing road tax on users of public space for the purposes of parking private vehicles.
