G.R.Majithia, J.

1. The landlords, aggrieved against the order of the Appellate Authority which, on appeal, reversed that of the Rent Controller and dismissed their petition for evicting the tenant-respondents from the premises, have come up in revision to this Court.

2. The revision petition initially came up for hearing before me sitting singly. On behalf of the tenant-respondents, it was canvassed that a landlord could increase rent by agreement and any increase so made could be legally recovered. The lessor could only recover fair rent from the lessee and in support of this submission, reliance was placed upon a Single Bench decision of this Court in Makhan Lal v. Anand Parkash, 1986 H. R. R. 358. I doubted the correctness of the submission made and requested my Lord the Chief Justice for constituting a larger Bench for deciding the point arising for adjudication in this petition [ also directed that the revision petition be disposed of by the larger Bench. It is how this petition has been placed before us for disposal.

3. The landlord-petitioners leased out ground floor of Shop Cum- Office No. 189-190-191, Sector 17-C, Chandigarh to the lessee-respondents under lease d