(P) Ltd.'s case, suit for eviction pending before the Munsiff Court and application pending before the same Munsiff in his capacity as the Rent Control Court were jointly tried. In a challenge, the High Court held that, when same person combines in himself two offices, the simultaneous exercise of both jurisdictions is permissible, unless it is prohibited and such an exercise cannot mean that, he has validly exercised neither. The suit was tried by the Munsiff in his capacity as such and the mere fact that, along with the suit, he tried the two petitions in his capacity as the Rent Control Court does not deprive him from his capacity or his jurisdiction as a Munsiff. In Raghavan Nair's case, the Division Bench was dealing with the principle of estoppel by election. It was held that, when either of two alternate tribunals are open to a litigant, each having jurisdiction over the matters in dispute, and he resorts for his remedy, one of such tribunal in preference to the other, he is precluded, as against the opponent, from any subsequent recourse to the latter and so also, in the case of two alternative modes of trial, if a litigant, by conduct of inaction, acquiesces in the adoption of one of these modes as by taking part in the proceedings down to their conclusion without objection or protest, he is estopped from afterwards complaining that the mode of trial with which he was content at the time was irregular or without jurisdiction. In State
