Judgement Pronounced on:12.12.2025 Judgement Reserved on: 03.12.2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition (M/S) No 1557 of 2024 Smt. Sunita Sah & others ......Petitioners Versus Sri Anup Singh Sahi …..Respondent Presence For the Petitioners: Mr. Pankaj Singh Chauhan, learned counsel For the Respondent: Mr. Tarun Prakash Singh Takuli, learned counsel Hon’ble Ashish Naithani, J.

1. The Petitioners, who are the landlords of shop no. 74, Agra Misthan Bhandar, situated in Bara Bazar, Mallital, Nainital, have invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, challenging the judgment dated 22.04.2024 passed by the learned District Judge, Nainital, in Rent Control Appeal No. 21 of 2023. By the impugned judgment, the appellate court set aside the order dated 16.10.2023 passed by the Prescribed Authority/Civil Judge (S.D.), Nainital in Rent Control Case No. 04 of 2021, whereby the release application under Section 21(1)(a) of the U.P. Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 had been allowed.

2. The appellate court reversed the decree solely on the ground that the Act itself was inapplicable as t