JUDGMENT

V. D. TULZAPURKAR, J. :— The appellant-landlady filed a petition against the respondent-tenant under S. 13(3)(a)(i) of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 Act No. III of 1949 (for short the Act) as applicable to the Union Territory of Chandigarh seeking his eviction on the ground that she required for her own occupation the first floor. of House No. 112, Sector 16A, Chandigarh which had been let out by her deceased husband to the respondent for residential purposes at a monthly rent of Rs. 550/- under a rent note dated 14-8-1975. The accommodation consists of two bed rooms, one living room dining room and a kitchen in addition to dressing, bath and lounge.

2. It appears that the said premises were let out by the appellants husband to the respondent as he, after retiring as a ViceChancellor of the Punjab University in 1974, had shifted to and taken up rented premises in Defence Colony at Delhi when he was appointed the Chairman of the DAV Managing Committee at Delhi. It further appears that the appellants husband late Shri Suraj Bhan Choudhary suffered in later years from cancer and after protracted illness and treatment at various hospitals in New Delhi and USA