Summarize the following court judgment. Appeal No. 768 of 1972. Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 24 8 71 of the Delhi High Court in R.S.A. No. 137/67. G.N. Dikshit and R.N. Dikshit	 for the Appellant. O.P. Malhotra	 S.N. Mehta	 Uma Datta	 Sat Pal and M. Iyengar	 for the Respondent. The Judgment of the Court .was delivered by BEG	 J. Jangbir	 appellant	 is a tenant of a room in a house which was purchased by the respondent Mahavir Prasad Gupta on 15th May	 1956	 for Rs. 1930/ shown in his sale deed as situated in "Khasra No. 203	 Khewat No. 1	 situated at Village Chowkri Mubarkabad	 Delhi Province	 within the abadi of Onkar Nagar II". The landlord owner had filed a suit for the ejectment of the appellant and for recovery 9f rent which was dismissed by a Subordinate Judge of Delhi on 26th May	 1966 on the ground that the jurisdiction of the Civil Court was barred by the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958	 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act ') which provided the only modes of relief for aggrieved landlords by proceeding under the Act. The respondent landlord had alleged that the suit lay in the ordinary Civil Court and that it was governed by the provisions of the Transfer of Property Act inasmuch as the house	 in which the appellant was the tenant of a room	 fell outside the area to which the Act was applicable. The short question on which the case was decided was whether the house of the respondent was situated in an area to which the Act had been applied by a notification under Section 507(a) of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act	 1957	 dated 7th January	 1960. published in the Delhi Gazette on 17th January	 1960 read with the notification dated 12th April	 1962 under Section 1	 sub. section (2) of the Act. published in the Gazette of India on 21st April	 1962. 672 The operative part of the notification of the Delhi Administration reads as follows: "No. F. 9/5/59 R&S In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of Section 507 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act	 1957 (66 of 1957)	 the Corporation with the previous 'approval of the Central Government hereby declares that the fol lowing localities mentioned in the Schedule given below	 hitherto forming part of the rural areas	 shall cease to be rural area". Thereafter	 was given a schedule and then came the heading: "Shahdara Zone". The schedule has 5 columns. The first is for the "Serial No." The second is for the name of the "Revenue estate"	 which is translation of Mauza	 said to be an area composed of several villages. The third column is for the name of the actual village or colony of the Mauza. It is headed "Name of Colony Village pro posed to be included in the urban area". The fourth column is for what is called the "square number". The last and the fifth column was headed: "Khasra/Killa Nos. covered by the Colo ny/Villages". We are. concerned here with serial No. 7 which has the entries indicated below made under the appropriate number of each column: "1. No. 7. 2. Chowkri Mubarakabad. Onkar Nagar. Lekhu Pura. Square No. Not given. Across "Onkar Nagar" are shown: "238	 242	 240	 234	 235	 236	 234	 231	 230 and 271"; and	 across "Lekhu Pura" are shown: "215 to 217	 211	212	 199 to 203". The notification published in the Gazette of India on 21st April	 1962	 may be reproduced in toto. It reads: "New Delhi	 the 12th ' April	 1962. G.S.R. No. 486 In exercise of powers con ferred by the proviso to sub section (2) of Section 1 of the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958 (59 of 1958)	 the Central Government hereby extends all the provisions of the said Act : (a) to the areas which immediately before the 7th April	 1958	 were included in the Notified Area Committee	 Najafgarh and the Notified Area Commit tee	 Narela; and (b) to the localties mentioned in the schedule to the notification of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi No. F 9/5/59 R&S	 dated the 28th December	 1959	 published in the Delhi Gazette Part IV	 dated the 7th 673 January	 1960	 and which by virtue of that notifi cation have formed part of the urban areas within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. (No. 35/8/61 Delhi I) A.V. Venkatasubban	 Deputy Secretary". The Subordinate Judge	 very rightly observed that there was no dispute between the parties that Mauza Chowkri Muba rakabad was included. within the limits of Delhi Municipal Corporation by the notification dated 7th January	 1960. He pointed out that there was no indication of a sub diviSion of Khasra No. 203 showing that any part of it was divided or separately numbered. The disappointed plaintiff landlord was	 however	 not content with so obviously correct a finding. He appealed to the District Judge who agreed entirely with the Trial Court and also recorded a finding of fact that Khasra No. 203	 situated in the Mauza or Revenue Estate of Chowkri Mubara kabad	 was covered by the notifications. It seems to us that no other inference was reasonably possible. The plaintiff respondent seems	 in a gambling spirit	 to have decided to try his luck by a second appeal to the High Court. What surprises . us is that a learned Judge of the Delhi High Court	 without considering the objects of the notifications or discussing any principle of construction of documents which could indicate that a point of law had really arisen for decision before him	 decided to set aside the concurrent findings of fact	 and	 thereby	 patently exceeded the jurisdiction of the High Court under Section 100 Civil Procedure Code. We need hardly say that there cannot be any doubt that he did so. We are surprised that the law laid down by this Court	 and	 before that	 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should have been so completely ignored. By way of example we may refer to the following cases: Deity Pattabhiramaswamy vs section Hanyamayya & Ors. (1); Sri Sinha Ramanuja Jeer & Ors. vs Shri Ranga Ramanuja Jeer & Anr.(2); Nedunuri Kameswaramma vs Sampati Subba Rao(3); Bhusawal Borough Municipality vs Amalgamated Electricity Co. Ltd. & Anr.(4); Secy. of State vs Rameshwa ram Devasthanam & Ors.(5);Anup Mahto vs Mira Dusadh & Ors.	(6) Sahebrao Narayanrao Deshmukh vs Jaiwantrao Yadaorao Deshmukh & Ant.(7) It is urged on behalf of the appellants that the con struction of a document is always a question of law. Reli ance was placed upon Meenakshi Mills	 Madurai vs The Commissioner of income tax	 Madras	(8) and Nedunuri Kames waramma vs Sampati Subba Rao (Supra). This Court has never laid down that inferences from contents of a documents always raise questions of law. Indeed	 in (1) A.I.R. 1959 S.C. 57. (2) [19621 (2)S.C.R. 509. (3) ; (4) ; (5) A.I.R. 1934 PC. (6) A.I.R. 1934 P.C. 5. (7) A.I.R. 1933 P.C. 171. (8) [1956] S.C.R. 691. 674 Nedunuri Kameshwaramma 's case (supra)	 this Court observed (atp. 215 216): "A construction of documents (unless they are documents of rifle) produced by the parties to prove a question of fact does not involve an issue of law	 unless it can be shown that the material evidence contained in them was misunderstood by the Court of fact. The documents in this case	 which have been the subject of three separate considera tions	 were the Land Registers the Amarkam	 and Bhooband Accounts and the Adangal Registers	 to gether with certain documents derived from the Zamindari records. None of these documents can be correctly described as a document of title	 whatev er its evidentiary value otherwise". We think that	 unless interpretation of a document involves the question of application of a principle of law mere inferences from or the evi dentiary value of a document generally raises only a question of fact. We think that	 if the learned Judge of the High Court had cared to consider the provisions of law relating to the extension of the Act to urban areas. or to bear in mind the correct principles of construction. of documents	 or	 tried to appreciate the true nature of the case before him	 he could not have possibly interfered with the concurrent findings of the two Courts below simply because the number of the Khasra in which the house of respond ent lay was not mentioned against both the portions of Chowki Mubarakabad but wholly against Lekhu Pura. In so far as the assumption	 from the en tries in column 5 of ' the notification	 could be that the whole of No. 203 fell in Lekhupura	 it was an obviously erroneous assumption. A clerical error was the most that was indicated by such an entry. But	 even so	 it left no doubt that the whole Khasra No. 203 was duly notified. "1. (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958. (2) It extends to the area included within the limits of the New Delhi Municipal Committee and the Delhi Cantonment Board and ' to such urban areas within the limits of the Municipal Corpora tion of Delhi as are specified in the first ScheduIe; Provided that the Central Government may	 by notification in the Official Gazette	 extend this Act or any provision thereof	 to any other urban area included within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi or exclude any area from the operation of this Act or any provision thereof". It is evident that the proviso does not require the mention of anything more than the urban area which is to be included or excluded from the limits of the Municipal Corporation	 That area was suffi ciently clearly indicated by entries in columns 2 and 3 meant for ' the Revenue 675 Estate or Mauza and for the colony or the village. It is clear from these that the whole of Mauza Chowkri Mubarakabad and the whole of Onkar Nagar and Lekhupura were meant to be notified. The mere fact that the last column was not filled up by whoever drew up the notification in such a manner as to show precisely where each Khasra number lay did not affect the question whether the area to be included was sufficiently indicated or not. The well known principles of interpretation applicable to such cases are: (a) Firstly	 a document must be construed as a whole. (b) Secondly	 it has to be so construed as not to reduce what was meant or being done by it to a patent absurdity. (c) Third ly	 if any entry of a column appears to have been carelessly made	 so as not to give a correct indi cation of what was otherwise clearly capable of being inferred from the objects and rest of the contents of such a notification	 the slight error	 due obviously to inadvertence	 would not matter on an application of the principle: Falsa Demonstra tio non nocet. A deliberate intention to omit a part of a Khasra number the whole of which is given in the notification of 7th January	 1960	 could not possibly be inferred. When we look at Section 507 of the Delhi Munic ipal Corporation Act	 1957	 we find the relevant part runs as follows: "507. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Act	 (a) the Corporation with the previous approv al of the Central Government may	 by notification in the Official Gazette	 declare that any portion of the rural areas shall cease to be included therein and upon the issue of such notification that portion shall be included in and form part of the urban areas; (b) the Corporation with the previous ap proval of the Central Government may	 by notifica tion in the Official Gazette	 (i) exempt the rural areas or any portion thereof from such of the provisions of this Act as it deems fit. (ii) Levy taxes	 rates	 fees and other charges in the rural areas or any portion thereof at rates lower than those at which such taxes	 rates	 fees and other charges are levied in the urban areas or exempt such areas or portion from any such tax	 rate	 fee or other charge;" Thus	 we find the provisions of Section 1 (2) of the Act as well as of Section 507(a) and (b) of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act refer only to "areas" and not to mere Khasra Nos. which are convenient divisions for the purposes of indicating what lay within each area. The Khasra is often spoken of as the "village map". Khasra for "abadi" areas even indicate. the type of construction which may lie within a particular number or the use to which a piece of land was being put. The term "urban area" or "rural area" is used for much larger units than Khasra Nos. It would	 obviously	 be quite impossible to think of one particular number	 within an "abadi" area	 left out or 676 dropped deliberately	 without any rhyme or reason	 from the notifications mentioned above. No conceivable reason has been suggested for such an omission. Indeed	 there is not even an omission the effect of which may have been helpful to the appellant. It was only a case where the whole number is shown against one village only instead of being shown against two. The learned High Court Judge	 by basing his whole judg ment on a farfetched conjecture from supposed omission of No. 203 in column 5	 against Onkar Nagar	 adopted a con struction of the Notification	 if that is what the learned Judge was doing	 which was quite unintelligible with refer ence to the facts of the case or purposes of such notifica tions. The learned Judge would have been well advised to rest content with the obviously correct position that what the two Courts below had done was to arrive at a pure find ing of fact as to whether a particular Khasra number con taining the house in question was included within a Mauza to the whole of which the provisions of the Act had been plain ly extended. In view of all the facts of the case	 no other conclusion was reasonably possible. Consequently	 we allow this appeal	 by special leave	 with costs throughout	 set aside the judgment of the High Court and dismiss the plaintiff 's suit. As no counsel appeared to hear the Judgment today 's costs are disallowed to both the parties. S.R. Appeal allowed.

Mauza Chowkri Mubarakabad was included within the limits of Delhi Municipal Corporation Act	 1957 by a notification dated 7th January	 1960. By a notification dated 12th April 1962	 the provisions of the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958 was extended to the localities mentioned in the schedule to the	 notification dated 7th January 1960. The respondent landlord who purchased a house situated in Khasra No. 203	 Khewat No. 1 situated at village Chowkri Mubarakabad	 Delhi Province within the Abadi of Onkar Nagar II	 filed a suit for ejectment of the appellant tenant of a room in the said house and for recovery of rent. The trial court and the first appellate court held that the juris diction of the civil court was barred by the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958. However on second appeal	 a single judge of the High Court disturbed the findings of fact and re versed the judgments of the courts below. Dismissing the appeal by special leave the Court	 HELD: (i) There cannot be any doubt	 that	 in the in stant case	 by deciding to set aside the concurrent findings of fact	 ignoring the law laid down by this Court	 and	 before that by the judicial committee of the Privy Council	 the High Court	 patently exceeded its jurisdiction under section 100 .C.P.C. without considering the objects of the notifications or discussing any principle of construction of documents which could indicate that a point of law had really arisen for decision. [673 D F] Deity Pattabhiramaswamy vs section Hanyamayya & Ors.	 AIR 1959 SC 57; Sri Sinha Ramanuja Jeer & Ors. vs Shri Ranga Ramanuja Jeer & Anr. 1962(2) SCR 509; Nedunuri Kameswaramma vs Sampati Subba Rao	 1963(2) SCR 208; Bhusawal Borough Municipality vs Amalgamated Electricity Co. Ltd. & Am '. 1964(5) SCR 905; Secy. of State vs Rameswaram Devasthanam & Ors. 	 AIR 1934 PC 112; Anup Mahto vs Mita Dusadh & Ors. AIR 1934 PC 5 and Narayanrao Deshmukh vs Jaiwantrao Yadaorao Deshmnkh & Anr.	 AIR 1933 PC 171; applied (ii) The well known principles of interpretation of documents are: (a) firstly	 a document must be construed as a whole; (b) secondly	 it has to be so construed as not to reduce what was meant or being done by it to a patent ab surdity; and (c) thirdly	 if any entry of a column. appears to have been carelessly made	 so as not to give a correct indication Of what was otherwise clearly capable of being inferred from the objects and. rest of the contents of such a notification	 the slight error. 	 due obviously to inadver tance	 would not matter on an application of the principle: Falsa Demonstrated non nocet." [675 B C] 671 (iii) Unless interpretation of a document involves the question of application of a principle of law	 mere infer ences from or the evidentiary value of a document generally raises only a question of fact. [674 C] Nedanuri Kameswaramma vs Sampati Subba Rao	 ; ; explained. Meenakshi Mills	 Madurai vs The Commissioner of Income Tax	 Madras	 ; ; referred to (iv) In the instant case	 it is evident that the proviso does not require the mention of anything more than the urban areas which is to be included or excluded from the limits of the Municipal Corporation. That area was sufficiently clearly indicated by entries in columns 2 and 3 meant	 for the Revenue Estate or Mauza and for the colony or the vil lage. The whole of Mauza Chowkri Mubarakabad and the whole of Onkar Nagar and Lekhupura were meant to be noti fied. The mere fact that the last column was not filled up in such a manner as to show precisely where each Khasra number lay did not affect the question whether the area to be included was sufficiently indicated or not. The provi sions of Section 1(2) of the Delhi Rent Control Act as wellas of Section 507(a) and (b) of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act refer only to "areas" and not to mere Khasra nos. which are convenient divisions for the purpose of indicating what lay within each area. [674 H	 675 A B	 GH]