, J.

1. The challenge in this revision petition is to the order dated 6.9.2002 made by the Rent Controller, Gurdaspur declining leave to the petitioner to defend the ejectment petition filed by the landlord under Sec.13-A of the East Punjab urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (hereinafter to be referred as, the Act ). The landlord-respondent who was to retire from the service of the intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India at chandigarh on 31.8.2002 filed a petition for eviction of the tenant-petitioner from the demised shop which formed a part of the residential house where the landlordrespondent wanted to settle after his retirement. It was contended in the petition that he wanted to reconstruct the house for use by him and members of his family after his retirement.

2. The tenant-petitioner contested the said petition on the ground that he was in possession of a shop which was being used for commercial purpose as also that the respondent-landlord was not a specified landlord as the certificate filed by him showing his date of retirement was issued by a Deputy Director Subsidiary, intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India wh