HARDEV SINGH BILKHU Vs. MEHTAB SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This order shall dispose of three revision petitions bearing CR No. 4703 of 2010 (O&M) titled as 'Hardev Singh Bilkhu v. Mehtab Singh', CR No. 4704 of 2010 (O&M) titled as 'Hardev Singh Bilkhu v. Om Parkash' and CR No. 5533 of 2010 (O&M) titled as 'Hardev Singh Bilkhu v. Anil Kumar and another' as all these petitions are against the similar order passed by the learned Rent Controller, Jalandhar dated 10.11.2009 by which an application filed by the tenant(s) under Section 18-A of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 [for short "the Act"] in the petition filed under Section 13-B of the Act by the landlord, has been allowed.

(2.) The only argument raised by learned Counsel for the Petitioner in all the three cases is that the learned Court below has erred in granting leave to defend the application filed under Section 13-B of the Act in view of the finding recorded in para No. 10 of the impugned order, which is reproduced as under:

(3.) Learned Counsel for the Petitioner admits that the Petitioner did not place the document Annexure P-1 on the record of the learned Rent Controller from which he has tried to project that the property in dispute is the same and for that the trial is not required.