(1.) This is tenant's revision petition challenging the impugned order, whereby, his application for leave to contest the eviction application filed under Section 13-B of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act ( for short "the Act") by the respondent-landlord was declined and further he was directed to hand over the vacant possession of the demised premises.
(2.) The brief facts out of which this petition has arisen, as culled out by the Rent Controller, Ludhiana, reads as follows:-
(3.) Upon notice, petitioner appeared and filed an application for grant of leave to contest on the following grounds:-