JUDGMENT - 1. This petition raises an important question regarding the validity of Clause 13(3)(vi) of the Central Provinces and Berar Letting of Houses and Rent Control Order, 1949. This Order has been made by the State Government in exercise of the power conferred upon it by Section 2 of the Central Provinces and Berar Regulation of Letting of Accommodation Act, 1946 (No. XI of 1946). Section 2 of the said Act provides as under-

"The State Government may by general or special order which shall extend to such areas as the State Government, may by notification direct, provide for regulating the letting and sub-letting of any accommodation or class of accommodation whether residential or non-residential, whether furnished or unfurnished and whether with or without board, and in particular-

(a) for controlling the rents for such accommodation either generally or when let to specified persons or classes of persons or in specified circumstances;

(b) for preventing the eviction of tenants or sub-tenants from such accommodation in specified circumstances;

(c) for requiring such accommodation to be let either generally, or to specified persons or classes of persons, or in specified circumstan

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