JUDGMENT

Manjari Nehru Kaul , J. - The instant revision petition has been filed to impugn the dismissal of an application filed under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC for amendment of the ejectment petition filed under Section 13 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (for brevity 'the Rent Act'), for ejectment of the respondent from the demised premises.

2. Learned Sr. counsel for the petitioners inter alia contends that the father of the petitioners-landlord Onkar Singh, had filed a petition under Section 13 of the Rent Act on the ground of personal necessity, as the shop in dispute was required for the use and occupation of his son Gurjeet Singh and another ejectment petition too had been filed for the personal necessity of his second son i.e. Jaspal Singh qua another shop, which was under the tenancy of one Nirmal Kumar. During the pendency of the ejectment petitions, the father of the petitioners Onkar Singh expired, hence, they were impleaded as his legal heirs in the ejectment petition filed u/s 13 of the Rent Act. The ejectment petition was duly contested by the respondent(s). In their written statements, it was alleged that the petitioners-landlord had various other shops, w