JUDGMENT - N.P. CHAPALGAONKER, J.:---This Civil Revision Application raises a question whether there is any limitation prescribed for an application by a person retiring from the Armed Force for getting premises vacated from the possession of the tenant under section 13-A1 of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, hereinafter, for the sake of brevity, referred to as `the Bombay Rent Act. Brief facts of the case are as follows.

2. The landlord Raghunath Shankar Bichkar filed an application under section 13-A1 of the Bombay Rent Act before the Competent Authority at Nasik in which he contended that he is the landlord of House No. 144, City Survey No. 5978 situated at Sangale Lane in Ahmednagar town and defendant non-applicant Ramchandra Deokar is the tenant in occupation of a portion of the said premises. Rent agreed was Rs. 20/- plus Rs. 5/- as light charges per month. The tenant has not paid any rent since 1st January, 1982 (sic), after 22 years of service he would come back and settle down at Ahmednagar. Only two rooms are in his possession now and those will not be sufficient. He has a son of marriageable age and an ailing and aged mother. Therefore, pr

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