JUDGMENT

SAWANT, J.:— This is a tenant appeal against the order of the High Court rejecting his writ petition summarily wherein he had challenged the order passed by the authorities under the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") evicting him from the suit premises. The relevant facts are that the respondent landlady had filed an application before the Rent Controller seeking eviction of the appellant, among other things, under S. 13(2)(i) of the Act since he was in arrears of rent from February 1, 1978 to May 4, 1982. The landlady had also sought his eviction on two other grounds, viz., she wanted the suit premises for her personal occupation and that the tenant was a nuisance to the neighbouring occupants. Since the two latter grounds were negatived and ultimately the decree was passed by the Rent Controller and was confirmed by the Appellate Authority only on the ground of the arrears of rent, we are not concerned here with the said grounds.

2. The facts relating to the arrears of rent as found by the authorities are that the respondent-landladys husband, Jagmohan Lal had on her behalf rented out the premises to the appellant at the m