(1.) THE following three questions of interpretation and scope of the relevant provisions of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (Act III of 1949), hereinafter called the Act, have arisen in this case in the circumstances hereinafter detailed -
(2.) THE rent has been fixed at Rs. 25/ - per month; but the rent is separate from the electricity charges.
(3.) IN the meantime, the landlord had taken two steps. Firstly, on May 12, 1967, he had filed a fresh petition for eviction of the tenant from which the present proceedings have arisen. In paragraph 3 of the petition, he has referred to the earlier proceedings and had stated that he was filing a revision petition in the High Court against the order of the appellate authority. In paragraph 4, he stated that in the previous proceedings the tenant had tendered a sum of Rs. 200 as rent from May 1, 1965, to December 31, 1965, along with Rs. 5 as interest and Rs. 30 as costs of the previous application for ejectment, but that the tenant had not paid any amount of house -tax. In paragraph 5 of the petition, the landlord stated that the tenant had not paid the rent from January 1, 1966, and had "also not paid the house -tax, which has been reimposed from 1st April, 1965". The details of the amount for the non -payment of which eviction was sought were then given in paragraph 6 in the following words -