Judgment

THOMMEN, J.:- This appeal arises from the judgment of the Delhi High Court in S. A. O. No. 59 of 1979 whereby the High Court, reversing the concurrent findings of the Additional Rent Controller and the Rent Control Tribunal, allowed the respondent landlords application for eviction of the appellant-tenant under Section 14(1)(e) of the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 (the Act). The respondent is the daughter of the original landlord who had let out the premises to the appellant on 1-10-1961. The present respondent purchased the property from her father on 27th June, 1964 and thus stepped into his shoes as the landlord as defined under Section 2 (e) of the Act.

2. Relying upon the Rent Note and the appellants letters dated 7-10-1961 and 18-8-1962 addressed to the respondents father and the earlier proceedings between them for eviction of the appellant on the ground of sub-letting the premises for commercial purposes, both the statutory authorities found that the premises which had been let out for residential purposes to the appellant had also been used incidentally for commercial purposes so as to exclude the application of Section 14(1)(e) read with the Explanation thereto. Thi