RAJINDER SACHAR J.

( 1 ) THIS is an appeal against the order of the Rent Control Tribunal by which he set aside the order of the Rent Controller and directed the respondent/tenant to pay the arrears of rent @ Rs. 18. 00 per month w. e. f. 13/11/1969. The Rent Controller had directed the payment of arrears @ Rs. 50. 00 per mensern.

( 2 ) THE petitioner/landlord has filed an eviction petition on the ground of nonpayment of arrears of rent under clause (a) of proviso to sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Delhi Rent Control Act (to be culled the Act ). The landlord who had purchased his property from the custodian had been given the sale certificate in 1964. He moved application for fixation of. standard rent. The Rent Controller by an order of 22/9/1966 fixed Rs. 50. 00 per mensern as the standard rent. That order was sought to be set aside by the tenant but he failed before the Rent Control Tribunal. At the time when the eviction petition was filed by the landlord on 29/3/1972 the tenants appeal against the fixation of standard rent being S. A. O. 253/69 was pending in this court (which was however, ultimately dismissed on 17/2/1975 ). When the application under Section 15 1) of A

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