IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

1.

CR-1997-2017(O&M)

Date of Decision: November 17, 2025 M/S HARI CHAND BHAGAT RAM & ANR ........Petitioners Versus SATISH CHANDER & ANR ........Respondents

2.

CR-2611-2017(O&M)

HARSH KUMAR ALIAS ARSH KUMAR ........Petitioners Versus SATISH CHANDER &ORS. ........Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARKESH MANUJA Present: Mr. Parvinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner in CR-1997-2017.

Mr. Esh Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner in CR-2611-2017.

Mr. K. S. Dhillon, Advocate for respondent No.1.

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HARKESH MANUJA, J. (ORAL)

By way of this common order, aforementioned two revision petitions shall stand disposed as they involve common question of law and fact.

For convenience, the facts are being taken from CR-1997-

2007.

By way of present revision petition(s), challenge has been laid to judgment dated 19.12.2016 passed by the learned Rent Controller, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar whereby, a petition under Section 13-B of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (for short ‘the Act’), preferred at the instance of respondent No.1 came to be allowed.

2. Briefly stating, respondent No.1-landlord having claimed himself to be an NRI owner of