JUDGMENT (Oral)

1. This petition, under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, assails judgment dated 10th July, 2019 passed by the learned Rent Control Tribunal in RCT 09/19 (Shakuntala v. Rani).

Facts

2. Rani is the landlady and Shakuntala the tenant, in respect of the premises comprising a flat on the second floor of the property bearing no. C-110/12, Ganesh Nagar, New Delhi-110018 ("the tenanted premises", hereinafter).

3. These proceedings emanate from Eviction Petition ARC 25248/16, instituted by the respondent against the petitioner. The respondent, in the said petition, sought to evict the petitioner from the tenanted premises under clause (a) of the proviso to Section 14(1) of the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 ("the DRC Act"). The statutory provision in question would be referred to hereinafter, as Section 14(1)(a), for convenience.

4. The respondent asserted, in the eviction petition, that the petitioner had been inducted in the tenanted premises as a tenant in 1998 at a monthly rent of Rs. 3,000/-, which was paid by her for about two years from the date of commencement of tenancy, whereafter the petitioner discontinued payment of rent. A demand notice, dated 22