IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 12.03.2026 SURINDER KUMAR AND ANOTHER ....Petitioners Versus MANDIR THAKUR DWARA ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE YASHVIR SINGH RATHOR Present : Mr. Ashish Aggarwal, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Ashwani Chawla, Advocate for the respondent.

YASHVIR SINGH RATHOR. J.(Oral)

1. This revision petition is directed against the order dated 10.10.2025 passed by the learned Rent Controller, vide which the application moved by the tenant for assessment of provisional rent has been rejected.

2. I have heard learned counsel for both the parties and have gone through the material placed on the file.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners contended that in an earlier litigation instituted by the respondent/landlord also, the tenants had denied relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties but later on, vide statement dated 22.03.2018, tenants had admitted the respondent to be their landlord and thereafter, provisional rent was assessed by the Rent Controller. Against the order of assessment of provisional rent, the landlord i.e. the present respondent filed CR No.7470 of 2018, which was dismissed vide order dat