JUDGMENT

Prateek Jalan, J. - CM aPPL. 10371/2022 & 10373/2022 (exemption)

Exemption allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

The applications stand disposed of.

CM(M) 191/2022 & CM aPPL. 10372/2022(stay)

1. By way of this petition under article 227 of the Constitution, the petitioner-tenant assails an order of the learned Principal District and Sessions Judge (HQ) and Rent Control Tribunal (Central), Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi [hereinafter, 'the Tribunal'] in RCT No. 55/2018 [Mahavir Prasad vs. Shri Paramjeet Singh]. By the impugned order, the Tribunal has partly allowed the appeal of the respondent-landlord against an order of the Rent Controller dated 28.02.2018, by which the eviction petition filed by the landlord [E. No. 79974/2016] was dismissed by the Rent Controller.

2. The landlord filed the eviction proceedings against the tenant in respect of a shop bearing No. a-11, Property No. 773, Chabi Ganj, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110006 [hereinafter, 'the suit property'] under Sections 14(1)(a) and 14(1)(b) of the Delhi Rent Control act, 1958 [hereinafter, 'the act']. The case of the landlord was that the suit property was owned by his deceased father Late Shri Deep Chand who had inducted the