Clause (bb) of sub clause (2) of Rule 81 of the Defence of India Rules is in these terms: "(bb) for regulating the letting and sub letting of any accommodation or class of accommodation, whether residential or non residential, whether furnished or unfurnished and whether with or without board, and in particular, (i) for controlling the rents for such accommodation (either generally or when let to specified persons or classes of persons or in specified circumstances); ((ii) for preventing the eviction of tenants and sub tenants from such 'accommodation in specified circumstances and); (iii) for requiring such accommodation to be let either generally, or to specified persons or classes of persons, or in specified circumstances; . ," 755 It was urged that the power conferred under this sub clause applied only to those cases where the house was available for letting or sub letting and not to eases where a house was not so available, in other words, if the land lord of any premises said that they were required for his own occupation, the Government had no power to requisition the same, Emphasis was laid on the word "regulating".