Summarize the following court judgment. Civil Appeal No. 222 of 1975. Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated the 8th August	 1973 of the Allahabad High Court in Special Appeal No. 189 of 1972. B. Sen	 Mrs. Lela Seth	 B. Mohan	 Parveen Kumar and O.P. Khaitan for the appellant. T. section Krishnamoorthy lyer and P. K. Pillai for Respondent No. 4 The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BEG	 J. The appellant	 here	 by special leave	 is a tenant of premises in Dehradun in respect of which the landlord respondent No. 4 had sought permission	 under Section 3 of the U.P. (Temporary) Control of Rent & Eviction Act III of 1947 (hereinafter referred to as 'the 1093 Act ')	 to sue for his eviction. The permission was granted by the Rent Control and Eviction officer	 Dehradun	 as long ago as 11 August	 1969	 and	 thereafter	 the suit for ejectment of the appellant was filed on 19th November	 1969. Section 3	 sub. (1) of the Act had merely imposed a bar on suits in Civil Courts filed without the permission of the District Magistrate except on certain grounds which are given there. The plaintiff respondent	 one Mrs. Sheila Kalha wife of a retired army officer	 was given permission to file her suit on the ground that she required the accommodation for personal residence. She is said to have been living at considerable expense to her at New Delhi due to inability to live in her own house at Dehradun as it has been occupied by the appellant. The tenant had applied on 19th August	 1969	 for a certified copy of the order of the Rent Control officer granting the landlord permission to sue and got its copy on 25th August	 1969. Thereafter	 the tenant filed a revision application under section 3(2) of the Act	 purporting to be made to the Commissioner	 Meerut Division	 but actually filed on 16th September	 1969	 before an Additional District Magistrate of Dehradun who had forwarded it on to the Commissioner. The Revision Application was received in the Commissioner 's office on 24th September	 1969. It was rejected by the Commissioner on the ground that it was filed beyond the time prescribed by Section 3(2) of the Act which reads as follows: "(2) Where any application has been made to the District Magistrate for permission to sue a tenant for eviction from any accommodation and the District Magistrate	 grants or refuses to grant the permission	 the party aggrieved by his order may within 30 days from the date on which the order is communicated to him apply to the Commissioner to revise the order. " The State Government also rejected the revision application of the appellant tenant	 filed under section 7F of the Act	 against the Commissioner 's order. The appellant tenant then approached the Allahabad High Court with a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution. The petition was rejected by a learned Judge on 21st October	 1972	 on two grounds: firstly	 under Section 3(2) of the Act; and	 secondly	 that the time spent on obtaining the certified copy of the order of the District Magistrate could not be excluded under Section 12(2) of the Limitation Act of 1963. For the second proposition reliance was placed upon Shyam Sunder Bajpai vs Commissioner Allahabad Division	 Allhabad & Anr.and Ram Lakhan vs Commissioner	 Varanasi Division	 Varanasi & ors. A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court had rejected the tenant 's Special Appeal summarily. This Court	 however	 granted special leave to appeal under Article 136 of the Constitution on 20th 1094 July	 1975. We need not express any opinion on the correctness of the second proposition here if we agree with the High Court 's view on the first point because	 in that case	 the tenant 's application would be time barred even if the time spent in obtaining the copy was excluded. The only contention	 put forward by Mr. B. Sen on behalf of the tenani appellant	 on the first point	 is that there is a practice in Dehradun	 acting on some instruction of the Commissioner	 Meerut Division	 to receive revision applications to the Commissioner through an Additional District Magistrate of Dehradun	 who has	 therefore	 the Commissioner 's authority to receive these applications. It was urged that the filing of the Revision application before an Additional District Magistrate should be deemed	 in these circumstances	 to be sufficient compliance with the requirements of Section 3(2) of the Act which provides	 as it clear from a bare look at it	 that the revision application lies before the Commissioner. It is difficult to see how a practice could possibly modify the provisions of the Act. There is not even a rule on this subject made by the State Govt. under the provisions of Section 17 of the Act which authorises the Govt. to "make rules to give effect to the purposes of this Act. " There are rules on other matters but not on such a matter. Mr. B. Sen relied on a Division Bench decision of the Allahabad High Court in T. C. Pasricha & Anr. vs The State of U.P.where it was held: "It appears that the Commissioner had authorised the District Magistrate to receive revisions meant for him. By so authorising	 the Commissioner was only indicating the place and	 the manner of representation of the revisions. Since the Rent Control Act did not either by itself or rules framed under it lay down the precise procedure in regard to the presentation of the revision	 the Commissioner who was the authority entitled to entertain and decide the revisions was within his rights to prescribe the procedure in respect of rep resentation of the revisions. The direction given by the Commissioner in 1946 with regard to the presentation of revision was valid and enforceable". In Pasrich 's case (supra)	 the Single Judge decision in Seth Bal Gopal Das vs State of U.P. on the case now before us	 was noticed by the Division Bench and distinguished on the ground that there was no evidence here to prove that there was any such practice. Both Pasricha 's case (supra) and the case now before us come from the Dehradun District. We think it is difficult to reconcile the Division Bench decision in Pasricha 's case	 decided on 5th April	 1973	 with the summary rejection of the Special Appeal No. 180 of 1973 on 8th August	 1973	 which is under appeal before us	 although we find that one of the learned Judges is common to both the Division Benches. 1095 We prefer the reasoning of the learned Single Judge in Seth Bal Gopal Das vs State of U.P. (supra) to the reasoning of the Division Bench in Pasricha 's case (supra). A wrong practice cannot possibly modify what naturally and logically follows from the language in Section 3(2) of the Act. This provision says that the party aggrieved must "apply to the Commissioner to revise the order". The natural inference is that the party must apply to the Commissioner directly and not through some other authority or official. It is true that Section 3(2) does not prescribe the manner and place of presentation of applications. But	 unless there is some rule made to confer authority	 upon the District Magistrate or the Additional District Magistrate concerned or his office	 to act as the agent of the Commissioner	 or a clear and specific authorisation by the Commissioner is proved	 we fail to see how filing a revision application before the Additional District Magistrate can be deemed to amount to making the application to the Commissioner. In Pasricha 's case (supra)	 the Division Bench had gone to the extent of holding that some communication made by the Commissioner in 1946 to the District Magistrate of Dehradun	 even a copy of which was not placed before the Court	 could be shown by means of an affidavit of a party	 to have been both established and to be enough to confer an authority on an Additional District Magistrate of Dehradun to receive applications on behalf of the Commissioner under the provisions of Section 3(2) of the Act which were introduced after 1946 according to the statement of facts in Pasricha 's case (supra) itself. Primafacie	 an authorisation cannot relate to a power or right conferred by a provision which could not be present to the mind of the Commissioner at all at the time when he is supposed to have made some communication to the District Magistrate as the provision for a revision in such a case did not even exist then. We	 therefore	 think that the reasoning of the Division Bench in Pasricha 's case (supra) is unacceptable. The alleged practice cannot be held to have been even established. And	 in any event	 such a practice was not enough to confer authority to receive petitions on behalf of the Commissioner. For that purpose	 proof of at least specific authorisation by the Commissioner	 after the introduction of the new provision	 was required. The result is that we are unable to find any merit in the case of the appellant who has been able to hold up proceedings for his eviction long enough in respect of accommodation which	 on the allegations made on behalf of the landlord (this term includes the "land lady")	 has been required to meet the landlord 's dire personal needs since at least 1969. We hope that the trial of the suit in such a case will not be delayed now. We dismiss this appeal with costs throughout. M.R. Appeal dismissed.

The Rent Control and Eviction officer Dehradun. granted permission to the respondent landlady under section 3 of the U.P. (Temporary) Control of Rent and Eviction Act	 to file a suit for eviction of the appellant tenant	 on the ground that the accommodation was required for her personal residence. The tenant filed a revision application under section 3(2) of the Act	 purporting to be made to the Commissioner	 Meerut Division but actually filed before the Additional District Magistrate who rejected it as time barred. The appellant tenant 's further revision application	 made under section 7F of the Act. was rejected by the State Government	 and then his petition under Article 226 was rejected by a Single Judge of the Allahabad High Court on two grounds: Firstly that neither the Act	 nor the rules made thereunder had any provision enabling the Additional District Magistrate to receive the tenant 's application under section 3(2). and secondly that the time spent in obtaining the certified copy of the District Magistrate order could not be excluded under section 12(2) of the . The appellant 's special appeal was summarily rejected by a Division Bench of the High Court. In appeal by special leave	 the appellant contended before the Court that. as a practice had grown up in Dehradun	 that the Additional District Magistrate receives the revision applications made to the Commissioner	 the requirements of section 3(2) should be deemed to have been sufficiently complied with. Dismissing the appeal	 the Court	 ^ HELD: There is not even a rule on this subject made by the State Government. A wrong practice cannot possibly modify what naturally follows from the language if s.3(2) of the Act	 that the party must apply to the Commissioner directly and not through some other authority or official. For that purpose proof of at least specific authorisation by the Commissioner	 after the introduction of section 3(2)	 was required. [1094C; 1095A & F]