Civil Revision No. 2400 of 2009 1 ****** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No. 2400 of 2009 Date of decision : 25.5.2010 Harcharan Kaur ....Petitioner Versus Babu Lal and another ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. Sukhpal Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Parveen Kumar, Advocate for the respondents S. D. ANAND, J. In a petition filed by the petitioner-landlord against the respondents-tenants for ejectment from the tenanted premises, the only ground urged is that the premises have been rendered unfit and unsafe for human habitation inasmuch as the roof thereof has completely fallen. Simultaneously, the respondents-tenants filed a plea under Section 12 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 for an order of learned Rent Controller to replace the roof. That plea came to be allowed by the learned Rent Controller. The petitioner-landlord is in revision against it. In view of the fact that rainy season would be around in about a month's time, it would be appropriate to allow the roof to be replaced. The entire exercise of replacement of roof shall be got Civil Revision No. 2400 of 2009 2 ****** videographed by the respondents-tenants at their own costs and in the presence of the petitioner-landlord. The purpose of allowance of the relevant request is to avoid any hardship being caused to the tenants till the determination of the ejectment plea against them. At the same time,. It has to be ensured that the interest of the petitioner-landlord also does not suffer on account of delay in disposal of the ejectment plea. The petition shall stand disposed of accordingly with a direction on the above indicated lines. Insofar as the the ejectment plea filed by the petitioner-tenant in the year 2005 is concerned, it is directed that the learned Rent Controller shall conclude the proceedings within three months from the next of hearing. The learned counsel for the parties have no idea about the next date of hearing in that case nor do they have any idea about the status of the trial. If the matter is already listed for hearing in the month of June, 2010, the three months period shall be counted from that date of hearing. If the matter is not listed for hearing in the month of June, 2010 and is posted for a later date, the learned Rent Controller shall pre-pone the date to 7.6.2010 and, then, adjourn it. The fact that the matter shall be listed before the Rent Controller on 7.6.2010 has been notified to the learned counsel for the parties today itself and it will their responsibility to communicate it to their respective parties who shall not be entitled to any independent notice. The acknowledgment (of a copy of this order) issued by the concerned Judicial Officer shall be forwarded to the Registry of Civil Revision No. 2400 of 2009 3 ****** this Court. Learned District Judge shall himself maintain a tab to ensure that the case is disposed of by afore-mentioned date. Disposed of accordingly. May 25, 2010 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE