L. Verma and P.C. Kapur for the Respondents.
From the Judgment and Order dated 16.10.1979 of the Punjab Haryana High Court in Civil Revision No.
C. Mahajan NP , Ms. Urmila Kapoor, Ms. S. Janani and Ms. Meenakashi for the Appellant.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SHARMA, J. This appeal by a tenant defendant is directed against the decree for his eviction from a shop on the ground mentioned in s. 13 2 v of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 hereinafter referred to as the Act which renders the tenant liable for eviction if he has ceased to occupy the rented premises for a companytinuous period of four months without reasonable cause.
The appellant disputed the allegation, but, the Rent Controller as well as the Appellate Authority rejected the defence and accepted the plaintiffs plea.
The number occupation of the premises by the tenant did, number companytinue after 197 1, and the eviction petition was filed in 1973.
823 of 1981.
The landlord respondent filed the present application for eviction of the appellant before the Rent Controller in March, 1973and inter alia pleaded that for a companytinuous period of more than four months the appellant had ceased to occupy the shop during 1969 to 1971 and he was, therefore, liable to be ejected.
After unsuccessfully moving the High Court under s. 15 5 of the Act, the tenant had filed the present appeal by special leave.
2300 of 1979.
