Hire-Purchase Act, 1972
27. Evidence of adverse detention is suit or
application to recover possession of goods.-
(1) Where, in a suit or application by an
owner of goods which have been let under a hire-purchase agreement, to enforce
a right to recover possession of the goods from the hirer, the owner proves
that, before the commencement of the suit or application and after the right to
recover possession of the goods accrued, the owner made a request in writing to
the hirer to surrender the goods, the hirer's possession of the goods shall,
for the purpose of the owner's claim to recover possession thereof, be deemed
to be adverse to the owner.
Nothing in this section shall affect a claim for
damages for conversion.