( 1 ) THIS writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed challenging the notice dated 21st May. 1983 issued by the Assistant Settlement Commissioner, Ministry of Works and Housing, Land and Development Office, requiring the petitioner to remedy certain breaches specified in the said notice failing which action would be taken against the petitioner for violation of the terms of the lease deed.

( 2 ) THE brief facts of the case are as follows. Plot No. 2. 8jorbagh, New Delhi was given on lease by the President of India on 20th December, 1969 by way of a perpetual lease. The petitioner constructed a double-storeyed residential house on the said plot after obtaining sanction from the competant authority. The petitioner let, out the entire premises to M/s Eastern India Marketing and Services Co. Private Ltd. on 1st January, 1963. The petitioner later discovered in the year 1980 that the tenants M/s Eastern India Marketing and Services Co. Private Ltd. had sublet the ground floor of the premises and had started running a Guest House on the first floor of the premises besides having made unauthorised constructions contrary to the terms of