Civil Revision No. 1942 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.1942 of 2010 Date of decision : 23.3.2010 Kabal Singh ....Petitioner Versus Anil Kumar ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. Vikas Bali, Advocate for the petitioner. S. D. ANAND, J. Petitioner-landlord has applied for the issuance of a direction to the learned Rent Controller to deal with the relevant matter in a time bound frame. The petitioner-landlord, an NRI, filed a plea for ejectment of the respondent-tenant from the tenanted premises in terms of Section 13-B of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restrictions Act (hereinafter referred to as “the Act'). That plea was filed in or around July, 2008. The respondent-tenant had filed a plea under Section 18-A the Act to obtain the leave of the learned Rent Controller to defend the proceedings aforementioned. That matter is still pending consideration at the hands of learned Rent Controller and has not been disposed of inpsite of grant of a number of adjournments. Relying upon the judgment dated 4.3.2010 rendered by this Court in Civil Revision No.1447 of 2010 (Hardayal Chand (NRI) and others Vs. Parshotam Dass Sharma and others), learned counsel for the Civil Revision No. 1942 of 2010 -2- petitioner states that he would be content and interests of justice would be served if a time bound disposal of the application for leave to defend is ordered by this Court. It is otherwise stated at the bar that the matter is fixed for 22.7.2010. The petition shall stand disposed of accordingly in limine with a direction that learned Rent Controller shall prepone the matter to a date in the month of April, 2010 and dispose it of during the month of April, 2010 itself. Obviously, the preponement shall be notified to the party/counsel opposite before fixture thereof for consideration comes about. The disposal of this petition in limine, with a view to expedite the disposal of the proceedings, proceeds on an assumption that there is no factual inaccuracy in the averment on behalf of the petitioner. If it transpires, at any subsequent point of time, that this order had been obtained on the basis of any incorrect averment, it (order of this Court) would be liable to be reviewed. The acknowledgment (of a copy of this order) issued by the concerned Judicial Officer shall be forwarded to the Registry of this Court. Learned Sessions Judge shall himself maintain a tab to ensure that the case is disposed of by aforementioned date. Disposed of accordingly. March 23, 2010 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE