JUDGMENT

1. The petitioner is before this Court seeking for the following reliefs: a. To set aside the order passed by the learned Additional City Civil Judge in MISC Petition No.910/2015 dtd. 5/12/2017 on the file of the Court of V Additional City Civil Judge Bengaluru City, vide Annexure-A. b. Issue any other direction/order/writ as deemed fit in the circumstances and probability of the case and same may be considered in the interest of justice and equity.

2. The petitioner is the Karnataka Silk Industries Corporation Limited and the respondents are Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). The dispute in the above matter is relating to the rents payable by the petitioner to the respondents in respect of the properties which has been rented out to the petitioner. It is in respect of the said dispute that the proceedings were initiated in Misc.No.910/2015 before the Additional City Civil Judge, Bengaluru under Ss. 470 and 471 of the Karnataka Municipal Act, 1976 (for short 'KMC Act') and the order dtd. 5/12/2017 in the said matter is under challenge in the present proceedings.

3. The issue involved in the said proceedings is as regards the rents payable and/or the increase in the