THE IMPERIAL TECHNICAL WORKS Vs. INDERJIT KAUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a rule directed against an order passed by the learned Second Additional District Judge, Delhi, holding that the appeal lay to the Court of the Senior Subordinate Judge and not to the Court of the District Judge.

(2.) ON the 14th of April, 1947, the Plaintiff filed a suit for ejectment and for recovery of Rs. 1,760/ - as rent under the Delhi and Ajmer -Merwara Rent Control Act, hereinafter referred to as the Act. This suit was dismissed on the 23rd of December, 1947. An appeal was taken to the District Judge on the 19th of January, 1948, and he decreed the suit. A Second appeal was brought to this Court which was dismissed and leave to appeal was asked for. At that stage a compromise was entered into between the landlord and the tenant whereby the decree -holder undertook not to execute his decree till the 1st of October, 1948.

(3.) SECTION 14 of the Act provides for the jurisdiction of the Court; Sub -section (2) of this section is as follows: