SURINDER KUMAR SHORI Vs. SHKUNTALA DEVI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Present revision petition has been filed against an order passed by the learned Rent Controller, Garhshankar declining the leave to defend to the petitioner.

(2.) The facts of the case are that the landlord-respondent had tiled a petition under Section 13B of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (for short the Act) for ejectment of the respondent from the shop marked ABCD shown red in colour in the site plan of the petition bounded as under: East: Remaining building of the petitioner. West: PWD Road, Garhshankar to Hoshiarpur. North: Shop of the petitioner in possession of Sukh Dev Verma. South: Private passage of petitioner being Khata No. 185/196, Khasra No. 408 as per Jambandi for the year 199697 situated in ward No. 5 within the urban area of Garhshankar.

(3.) The learned Counsel for the petitioner-tenant had sought leave to contest the petition under Section 13-B of the Act on the following grounds: