( 1 ) BY this application under Article 226 of the Constitution the petitioners, who are in occupation as tenants of three tenements in a building owned by the respondent no. 1, the Gulab Bai Digumbar Jain Kanya Vidyalaya, Bhopal (hereinafter referred to as the Vidyalaya), pray for the issue of a writ of ceiliorari for quashing a notification issued by the State Government on 22nd May, 1963 under Section 3 (2) of the Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act. 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the Aet) exempting the said building from all the provisions of the Act.

( 2 ) THE long title of the Act is: "an Act to provide for the regulation and control of letting and rent of accommodation and the eviction of tenants therefrom. " With this view provisions have been inserted in Chapter II of the Act regarding fixation of standard rent and prohibition of recovery of rent in excess of standard rent and unlawful charges. Section 12 lays down restriction on eviction of tenants. There are other provisions in the Act, all intended to regulate the control of letting, rent of accommodation and eviction of tenants therefrom. Section 3 (2) of the Act is as follows:-"the Government may b