P.C.Pandit, J.

1. Hans Raj and his brother Karnail Chand filed an application under Section 13 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 , for the ejectment of Ram Murti, from the shop in dispute situate in the town of Bhatinda. One of the grounds for eviction was that the tenant had sublet the premises to Surinder Kumar and his two brothers, Raj Kumar and Devinder Kumar. During the pendency of this application, the landlords, in order to prove their case, made an application for the summoning of the record keeper of the sales tax department with the file regarding the sales tax licence issued to the tenant on the 19th of May, 1964, and his application dated 18th June, 1966, for the cancellation of the said licence along with the order passed on that application. The case of the tenant was that Surinder Kumar and his two brothers were not his lessees, but they were working as his employees in the shop in dispute. The position taken by the landlords, on the other hand, was that the tenant had given up his business in Bhatinda, and had got his licence cancelled by the sales tax department and he had gone to Sirsa for starting some new business. It was with t