A.C.GUPTA, V.R.KRISHNA IYER, Y.V.CHANDRACHUD
Rattan Lal – Appellant
Versus
Vardesh Chander – Respondent
JUDGMENT
KRISHNA IYER, J.:—This fifth deck appeal, by certificate under Art. 133 of the Constitution, stems from a humdrum but protracted litigation under the rent control law by 590 a tenant who has lost all along the way. If we may prologise, this special law hopefully set up a quasijudicial machinery for summary trial and speedy disposal and prescribed eviction save upon simple grounds safeguarding the security of tenants of buildings against being inequitably ejected. But this very case disclose the chronic distortion in processual justice, caused by a slow-motion sprawl of appeals and plethora of technical pleas defeating the statutory design.
2. The obvious legislative policy and project in this class of simplistic landlord-tenant litigation demands a radically non-traditional judicial structuring and legal engineering, by-passing sophistications and formalisms and tier-upon-tier of judicial reviews. Both these impertives are conspicuously absent in current rent control litigation a dismal failure which the legislature will, we hope, awaken to rectify. Post-audit of socio-economic laws in action, with a view to over-see if legal institutions and jural postulates actually achie
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