SHIVASHANKAR BHAT, J.

( 1 ) IN W. P. No. 523/1986, the prayer of the petitioner is to 'quash' the provisions of Karnataka rent Control Act, 1961 ('the Act' for short) specially sections 29, 21 (l) (a) and 31 of the Act. There is also a prayer to direct the State to enact a uniform legislation for the litigants in the State etc. There was also a prayer for striking down Act 31 of 1975 to the extent of it deleting the provisions for appeal under Section 48.

( 2 ) PETITIONER states that he applied for allotment of a premises under the provisions of the Act, which was opposed by the then landlord. The writ petition proceeds on the assumption that he is the tenant against whom eviction proceedings are pending On the file of the Court of 19th Additional Small causes, Bangalore. , The writ petition is sketchy about the facts. It straightaway attacks the provisions of the Act as discriminatory because, litigants in Bangalore, are subjected to a discriminatory treatment in the matter of forum. The eviction proceedings in Bangalore are filed in the court of Small Causes and any order therein is to be challenged by filing revision petition under section 50 before the High Court. In other part

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