Judgment

SARKAR, J. : The respondents are the owners of the certain premises in Connaught Circus in New Delhi, which were let out to Allen Berry and Co. (Calcutta) Ltd. Sometime in 1959 Allen Berry and Co. transferred the lease to the appellant and put the latter in possession. Alleging that the transfer had been made without their consent, the respondents made an application under Cl. (b) of the proviso to sub-s. (1) of S. 14 of the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 to the Controller appointed under it against Allen Berry and Co. and the appellant for an order for recovery of possession of the premises from them. While the application was pending, Allen Berry and Co. went into liquidation and was in due course dissolved and its name was, thereupon, struck off from the records of the proceedings. The Controller later heard the application and made an order in favour of the respondents for recovery of possession of the premises from the appellant also. An appeal by the appellant to the Rent Control Tribunal under the Act against this order was dismissed. The appellant then moved the High Court of Punjab for setting aside the order of the Tribunal, but there also it was unsuccessful. It ha