( 1 ) THIS revision under section 25b (8) of the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 (for short the Act) challenges the judgment and order dated 25th October, 1982 of the Additional Rent Controller dismissing the application for the eviction of the respondent without deciding whether the respondent-tenant was entitled to leave to contest the eviction application and also without recording any evidence of the parties. The Additional Rent Controller held that the eviction application was not maintainable on the basis of alleged admitted facts.

( 2 ) BRIEFLY the facts are that the petitioners filed an application for eviction of the respondent alleging that the respondent was tenant of petitioner No. I at Rs. 450. 00 per month with respect to a portion of the first floor of house No. E-14/4, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, that petitioner No. I is owner of the premises in suit let for residential purposes, that he bona fide required the suit premises for the residence of his family members dependent upon him and that he has no other reasonably suitable accommodation. The family of the petitioner consists of himself, his wife, two sons and one married daughter having children. One o