DEVI CHAND Vs. CHATAR SINGH, ETC.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order will dispose of Letters Patent Appeals Nos. 224 to 228, and 584 and 585 of 1970. The parties in these appeals are different but the facts relevant for the decision of these appeals are the same.

(2.) THE Appellants are tenants. They were inducted on the land after the coming into force of the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lanes Act, 1955 (Act No. 13 of 1955). The landlords prayed for their eviction on the basis of Section 8 of the Act. Ultimately, an order was passed by the Financial Commissioner whereby he rejected the applications of the landlords for eviction of the tenants. The landlords then filed petitions in this Court under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India. These petitions have been allowed by a learned Single Judge of this Court basing himself on the decision in Randhir Singh and Ors. v. Financial Commissioner and Ors., 1970 P.L.R. 631. That is how the tenants have come up in letters patent appeals to this Court.

(3.) BEFORE proceeding to deal with the above contention, it will be profitable straightaway to refer to Section 32 -E of the Act which is in these terms: