JUDGMENT :

SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD, J.

1. Aggrieved by order dated 23.11.2017 passed by the learned Additional Rent Controller, Tis Hazari Courts in Case No. E-726/2017 rejecting the leave to defend application filed by the Petitioner herein (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tenant’) and resultantly allowing the eviction petition filed by the Respondent herein (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Land-lord’). The Tenant has come up to this Court by filing the instant revision petition.

2. Shorn of details, the facts leading to this petition are as under:

(i) An Eviction Petition, being Eviction Petition No. E-726/2017, was filed by the Land-lord for evicting the Tenant from the tenanted premises, being half portion of the First Floor towards the Northern side of the property bearing Municipal No. 94, Dariba Kalan, Delhi-110006 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘premises in question’). In the said eviction petition, an application for leave to defend was filed by the Tenant.

(ii) The case of the Land-lord is that the he is the owner/landlord of the tenanted premises. It is stated that the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor portion of the premises is being used by the Landlord for running his hotel under the nam