IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CR No.683 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision:31.01.2011 Tejinder Pal Singh . . .Petitioner Versus Paramjit Singh . . . Respondent ***** CORAM: HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN ***** Present: Mr.Anil Chawla, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J (ORAL) This revision petition is directed against order passed by the Rent Controller, Amritsar dated 20.12.2010 by which provisional rent has been assessed @ `Rs.1000/- per month to be paid from 1.4.2003 till date. The landlord had filed the petition for eviction claiming arrears of rent @ `8800/- per month w.e.f. 1.4.2003 upto 31.3.2006 as well as @ `9680/- per month w.e.f. 1.4.2006 upto date. In the written statement, it was claimed by the petitioner that rate of rent is `1000/- per month which has been paid upto December 2008. The learned Rent Controller, however, did not agree to this assertion of the petitioner because at the stage of evidence no rent receipt was produced by him yet the provisional rent has been assessed not at the rate which is claimed by the landlord but at a rate claimed by the tenant/petitioner. At that stage of fixation of the provisional rent, it was for the tenant to show some prima facie evidence that he has already made the payment of rent upto a particular period. In the absence of any prima facie evidence, there is no option left with the Rent Controller but to ask the tenant to make the payment of rent assessed by him from the date mentioned by landlord in the petition. In view thereof, I do not find any merit in the present revision petition as such the same is hereby dismissed. Yet on the request of learned counsel for the petitioner, rent determined by the Rent Controller, Amritsar be paid on or before 7.2.2011. January 31, 2011. (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) vivek JUDGE