( 1 ) IN January, 1958, Iqbal Rai applied for fixation of Standard rent of a portion of a single storeyed building in Shakti Nagar, Delhi. He stated that he was a tenant under the respondent, landlords at Rs. 90. 00 per month from and July 1957 but the agreed rent was exorbitant. This application was contested and the learned Saborninate Judge 1st Class, by his order dated 24th November 1959, fixed the standard rent at Rs. 600. 00 per annum which comes to Rs. 50. 00 per month. This was fixed with effect from 30th December, 1957.

( 2 ) RAM Partap Bhandari and S. N. Bhalla, defendants in the trial Court, took the matter on appeal before the learned Senior Subordinate Judge, who iaised the standard rent to Rs. 75. 00 per month by his order dated 14th February, 1981. The present revision against that order presented in 1961 has come up for final disposal today, about 7 years latter.

( 3 ) THE learned counsel for the petitioner tenant has very strongly argued that the order of the learned Senior Subordinate Judge suffers from serious legal infirmities. According to him, the statute had fixed the rent of the premises in dispute by reference to the first letting which was