IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CR No.362 of 2012 (O&M) Date of decision: 02.04.2013 Sohan Lal Sharma & anr. .... Petitioners Versus Rajinder Sofat .... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. Bhupinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. P.S.Rana, Advocate for the respondent. ***** Jaswant Singh, J.(ORAL) The landlords are in revision under Section 15(5) of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 assailing the judgment dated 12.08.2011 (Annexure P-8) passed by the learned Appellate Authority, SAS Nagar, Mohali whereby he has set aside the eviction order dated 08.01.2010 (Annexure P-6) passed by the Rent Controller for non-deposit of the arrears of provisional rent within the stipulated time, and further remanded the matter before the learned Rent Controller to pass a fresh order in accordance with law assessing the provisional rent to be paid by the tenant. At the time of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners/landlords on instructions from Sohan Lal Sharma, who is present in Court, very graciously states that in view of the settled principle of law in Gurpreet Singh vs. Brijender Bhardwaj and others, 2011(1) RCR Rent 319, he would not like to press this petition provided the learned Rent Controller is directed to decided the tenant eviction petition filed by the landlord seeking eviction inter alia on the ground of personal necessity in a time bound manner. CR No.362 of 2012 (O&M) -2- In response, learned counsel for the respondent-tenant submits that he has no objection if the pending proceedings before the learned Rent Controller are directed to be decided in expeditious manner. In view of the aforesaid stand, the present revision petition stands dismissed as withdrawn. However, learned Rent Controller, SAS Nagar, Mohali is directed to decide the tenant eviction proceedings initiated by the landlord by giving limited opportunities to parties in expeditious manner preferably within one year from today, after deciding the issue of provisional assessment of rent. 02.04.2013 (Jaswant Singh) sonia Judge