2023:PHHC:106770

CR-3811-2023 (O&M)

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335 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

CR-3811-2023(O&M)

Decided on:-17.08.2023

Pawan Kumar

....Petitioner..

vs.

Vinod Dutt Sharma

....Respondent.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARKESH MANUJA

Present:

Mr. A.P. Kaushal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Abhinav Gupta, Advocate for the respondent.

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HARKESH MANUJA J. (Oral)

1.

By way of present revision petition, challenge has been laid to

an order dated 20.05.2023, passed by Rent Controller, Ludhiana, whereby an

application filed at the instance of petitioner-tenant seeking permission to

send his voice samples to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory,

Chandigarh for comparing the same with audio/video clip recorded in the

pendrive (Ex.R-1/A), was dismissed.

2.

In the present case, an eviction petition under Section 13 of the

East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to as

“1949 Act”) came to be filed by respondent-landlord on the ground of non-

payment of arrears of rent. In the written statement, petitioner-tenant took

the stand that the rent was duly paid; on some occasions to the respondent-

landlord and on few others to his son. I