( 1 ) THESE are fifteen Rules obtained by as many tenants of Premises No. p-36, Royal Exhange Place Extension, Calcutta, wherein the tenants petitioners complain against the dismissal of their applications under Sections 9 and 10, West Bengal Premises Kent Control (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1950, for fixation of standard rents and refund of alleged excess payments.

( 2 ) BEFORE the Rent Controller, more precisely, the Additional Kent Controller of Calcutta,--there were sixteen applications by sixteen tenants, namely, the petitioners before me and M/s. Mittra Sadani and Co. All the said applications were opposed by the landlord Sampatmull Bothra, who is the opposite party, in all the present Rules. The Rent Controller fixed the standard rents under the proviso to Section 9 (1) () of the Act assessing the 'entire construction for the purposes of that proviso at Rs. 6,73,703-6-5--Rs. 3,18,855-5-6 being the "market price" of land at the relevant date and RS, 3,54,848 being "the actual cost of construction"--and calculating the proportion in each case as contemplated in the said proviso to Section 9 (1) (f ). The landlord appealed and the learned Judge, who heard