(1.) On an application for fixation of fair rent filed b7 the tenant respondent, the Rent Controller, Barnala fixed the rent at Rs. 6101 per annum although the contractual rent was Rs. 1500.00 per annum. While fixing the fair rent of Rs. 650.00 per annum, the Rent Controller had noticed that the rent for the premises in 1938-39 was Rs. 151-24 Paise but he took into account the circumstances that since 1938.39, the town had developed consi- derably. He said