G.P. SINGH, J.

1. The petitioner is a firm and owns house No. 2344 situated in Wright Town, Jabalpur, which was purchased by it by registered sale-deed on 7th February, 1967. The firm consists of three partners, one of them being Vishnudatta Dubey. At the time of purchase, the house was in occupation of one Shri Narayanan, a Deputy Collector. Narayanan was thereafter transferred and as the house was likely to fall vacant, the petitioner intimated the fact to the Rent Controlling Authority and also claimed that the house should not be allotted to anyone, as it was needed by Vishnudatta, one of the partners of the petitioner firm for his own occupation because his son and brother were students studying in educational institutions at Jabalpur and they were living in a rented house, which was not suitable. The Rent Controlling Authority by its order passed on 19th June, 1967 allotted the house under section 39 (2) of the M.P. Accommodation Control Act, 1961 to Shri D.V. Singh, Deputy Director of Agriculture. He overruled the petitioner's objection to the allotment essentially on the ground that the need of one of the partners to occupy the house cannot be held to be a need of the f