From the Judgment and Order dated 26.5.1989 of Delhi High Court in S.A.O. No.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Special Leave Petition Civil No.
7914 of 1989.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by M. SAHAI, J. Tenant inducted in 1979, for three years, 2by the landlord under a written agreement, in C 4/33, Saf darjang Development Area, New Delhi, with permission of Controller under Section 21 of Delhi Rent Control Act for brevity the Act seeks leave of this Court on limited question of law if proceedings for recovery of possession under Section 21 of the Act companyld be initiated and companytinued by legal representatives of the landlord who had obtained permission but who died before expiry of period of tenancy.
M. Tarkunde and S.K. Gupta for the petitioner.
Answer of it shall depend, primarily, on companystruction of word landlord used in Section 21, a provision held to be self companytained companye in Shiv Chand Kapoor v. Amar Bose, 1990 1 SCC 234 and also the purpose and objective of its enactment as provision of short duration tenancy or periodi cal tenancy in Rent Control Act of Delhi right from 1952, is unique amongst such legislations and is probably number exist ent in any other State.
Dr. Y.S. Chitale, Ramji Srinivasan, P.K. Jain and Ra vinder Nath for the respondents.
296 of 1984.
