Judgment

V.N. Khare, J.-Since common question of fact and law are involved in these civil appeals and as such they were being disposed of by a common judgment.

2. In all these appeals the appellant are the tenants and the respond­ent is the landlady. The respondent herein owns a premises in the city of Chandigarh. There were four separate tenements in the said build­ing, two of which are occupied by the two appellants herein. In the 1975, the husband of respondent landlady who was a government servant retired from service and on 5.1.85 he died. The State Legislature of Punjab amended the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’). By the aforesaid amendment a new Section 13A was added in the Act. The aforesaid Section 13A reads as under :

“13A. Right to recover immediate possession of residential or scheduled building to accrue to certain persons where a specified landlord at any time, within one year prior to or within one year after the date of his retirement or after his retirement but within one year of the date of commencement of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1985, whichever is later, applies to the Controller al