JUDGMENT

Anil K. Narendran, J.

The petitioner filed R.C.P.No.6 of 2021 on the file of the Rent Control Court (Munsiff), Punalur, a petition under Section 11(2)(b) and 11(3) of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1965, seeking eviction of the respondent herein-tenant from the petition schedule building. The petitioner is before this Court in this original petition, invoking the supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, seeking an order directing the Rent Control Court to take up R.C.P.No.6 of 2021 and dispose of the same, within a time limit to be fixed by this Court.

2. On 30.06.2022, when this original petition came up for admission, this Court issued notice to the respondent-tenant by speed post, returnable within three weeks. Registry was directed to call for a report from the Rent Control Court, Punalur as to the present status of R.C.P.No.6 of 2021 and also the interlocutory application filed under Section 12 of the Act.

3. Pursuant to the order dated 30.06.2022, a report dated

07.07.2022 is received from the Rent Control Court, Punalur, wherein it is stated that an interlocutory application, i.e., I.A.No.1 of 2021, filed by the landlo