( 1 ) IN this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution, the legality of the order dated January 22, 1973 passed by the Rent Controller, Delhi, in a petition for eviction filed by the petitioner landlord against Respondent No. 2 tenant has been challenged in the following circumstances.

( 2 ) THE petition for eviction was filed by the landlord against the tenant on the ground that the tenant had failed to pay arrears of rent p the premies within two months of the day on which a notice of demand for the arrears had been served on*the tenant by the landlord within the meaning of clause (a)of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Delhi-Rent Control Act, l958 (hereinafter called the Act ). In such a petition it is mandatory under section i5 (l) that the Controller shall pass an order directing the tenant to pay to the landlord the rent of the premises at the rate at which it was last paid for the period for which the. arrears of rent were legally recoverable from the tenant including the period subsequent thereto upto the end of the month previous to that in which payment or deposit is made and to continue to pay or deposit month by month by the 15th