Summarize the following court judgment. Appeal No. 764 of 1977. (Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated the 21st January 1977 of the Delhi High Court in Civil Revision No. 654 of 1976). F.S. Nariman	 D.P. Mukherjee and G.S. Chatterjee	 for the appellant. Prem Malhotra	 for respondent No. 1 The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA lYER	 J. So heartening to the judges ' bosom iS the happy ending of a bitterly fought litigation where the law is declared by the Court and justice is accomplished by the parties settling the differences	 assisted by activ ist judicial suggestions and promoted by constructive Coun selling by advocates. Such is the pleasing culmination of this case which relates to an ejectment proceeding under section 14A of the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958 (Act 59 of 1958). 'the Controller directed eviction refusing leave to the tenant to contest the application for eviction. The High Court	 in the revision filed by the tenant	 went into an elaborate discussion on many matters but somehow missed a plea fatal to the landlord 's claim and affirmed the relief ' of eviction although on different grounds. The aggrieved tenant sought special leave to. appeal which was granted and	 thanks to the landlord appearing by caveat even at the preliminary hearing	 leave was granted and the appeal itself was heard the very next day. This at the Supreme Court level quick justice has been meted out and fortunately our judg ment has resulted in a re adjustment between the parties and	 hopefully	 the healing of the wounds of litigation. A protracted forensic proceeding makes foes of friends	 but a settlement of the dispute in accordance with law and justice makes friends of foes. Some facts need to be narrated for getting the hang of the case and the issues of law raised. The respondent is an Under Secretary to Government in the Housing Ministry. He was in occupation of residential premises allotted to him by the Central Government and was required by government order to vacate such residential accommodation on the ground that he owned in Delhi a residential accommodation in his own name. The building we are concerned with is 23/6	 Shakti Nagar. It is a two storeyed house but the litigation cen tres round part of the first floor. The whole building belonged to one Pandit Saraswati Das who let out a portion of the first floor consisting of 4 rooms and a small enclo sure somewhere in August 1968 to the appellant. Shri Das died in 1972 leaving behind the 1st respondent	 two other sons (respondents 2 & 3) and a daughter (respondent 4). It may be stated even here that the proceeding before the Controller was started by the 1st respondent and an objec tion was raised 414 by the appellant that the other heirs of the late Das were necessary parties they were not impleaded at this stage although the Controller ordered eviction over ruling the objection. The High Court however	 impleaded the other two Sons and the only daughter (respondents 2 to 4) and taking the view that their presence was necessary for the maintain ability of the action	 the learned Judge decreed eviction. A crucial objection	 lethal to the case of the landlord	 considered by the Controller but negatived by him	 was raised in the revision petition but was not adverted to or adjudicated upon by the High Court. Before us Shri Nariman has pressed it again and the fate of this case	 so far as we are concerned	 rests on the validity of that point. The landlord 1st respondent	 after receiving the order from government to vacate	 as contemplated fin section 14A of the Act	 applied for eviction of another tenant who was occupy ing a three room tenement on the first floor of the same building. In fact	 the first floor of the house consists of two dwelling apartments as it were	 one consisting of three rooms and the other of 4 rooms. By definition	 'premises means any part of a building which is	 or is intended to be	 let separately for use as a residence . . In the present case the three room tenement being part of a build ing and let separately to a tenant	 fell within the defini tion of 'perraises '. Admittedly	 the landlord exercise his right under section 14A to recover immediately possession of those premises. He succeeded	 secured possession and kept it vacant. Even at the present time those premises which are adjacent to the suit promises are in his vacant posses sion. Shri Nariman 's argument is that while it is open to a landlord who is a government servant directed to vacate allotted premises	 and clothed with a new right to recover possession of any premises let out by him	 to exercise it once	 he cannot repeat the exercise ad libitem and go on evicting every tenant of his by using the weapon of section 14A. He relies on the proviso to section 14A(1) to rein force his submission and we will deal with it presently. Two other contentions urged by the appellant are that the first respondent is not his landlord and therofore is disentitled to evict him	 under the Act	 and secondly	 the premises are not in his name and have not been let out by him. In any case	 the claim of the first respondent that the building in its entirety had been allotted by the late Shri Das by his will to the 1st respondent and his brother the 3rd respondent and that	 subsequently	 there had been an oral partition between the two whereunder the first floor was allotted in toto to the 1st respondent making him the sole owner and therefore the exclusive landlord	 was con tested by the appellant tenant and this plea should have been allowed to be raised by grant of leave under section 25B by the Controller. The presence of the co heirs at the High Court level was inconsequential	 according to the appellant	 and their absence at the trial stage vitiated the order of the Controller. We will examine these contentions briefly. The scheme of the statute is plain and has been earlier explained by this Court with special reference to sections 14A and 25B. The government servant who owns his house	 lets it out profitably and 415 occupies at lesser rent official quarters has to quit but	 for that very purpose to be fulfilled	 must be put in quick possessioon of his premises. The legislative project and purpose turn not on niceties of little verbalism but on the actualities of rugged realism	 and so	 the construction of section 14A(1) must be illumined by the goal	 though guided by the word. We have	 therefore	 no hesitation in holding that section 14A(1) is available as a ground	 if the prem ises are owned by him as inherited from propositus in whose name the property stood. In his name	 and let out by him read in the spirit of the provision and without violence to the words of the section	 clearly convey the idea that the premises must be owned by him directly and the lease must be under him directly	 which is the case where he	 as heir	 steps into his father 's 'shoes who owned the building in his own name and let it out himself. He represents the former owner and lessor and squarely falls within section 14A. The accent on 'name ' is to pre empt the common class of benami evasions	 not to attach special sanctity to nominalism. Refusing the rule of ritualism we accept the reality the ownership and landlordism as the touchstone. Nor do we set much store by the submission that the 1 st respondent is not a landlord	 being only a co heir and the will in his favour having been disputed. Equally without force in our view is the plea that one co lessor cannot sue for eviction even if the other co lessors have no objection. Section 2(e) of the Act defines 'landlord ' thus: "2(e) 'Landlord ' means a person. who	 for the time being is receiving	 or is enti tled to receive	 the rent of any premises	 whether on his own account or on account of or on behalf of	 or for the benefit of	 any other person or as a trustee	 guardian or receiver for any other person or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive the rent	 if the premises were let to a tenant." 'Tenant '	 by definition [section 2(1)] means any person by whom or on whose account or behalf the rent of any premises is payable. Read in the context of the Rent Control law	 the simple sense of the situation is that there should be a building which is let. There must be a landlord who col lects rent and a tenant who pays it to the one whom he recognizes as landlord. The complications of estoppel or even the concepts of the Transfer of Property Act need not necessarily or inflexibly be imported into the proceedings under the rent control law	 tried by special Tribunals under a special statute. In this case	 rent was being paid to the late Das who had let out to the appellant	 on the death of the former	 the rent was being paid by the 1st respondent who signed his name and added that it was on behalf of the estate of the deceased Das. At a later stage the rent was being paid to and the receipts issued by the 1st respondent in his own name. Not that the little change made in the later receipts makes much of a difference	 but the fact remains that the tenant in this case had been paying the rent to the 1st respondent. Therefore	 the latter fell within the definition of 'landlord ' for the purposes of the Act. we are 12 436SCI/77 416 not impressed with the investigation into the law of real property and estoppel between landlord and tenant	 Shri Nariman invited us to make. A fair understanding of the relationship between the parites leaves little room for doubt that the appellant was the tenant of the premises. The 1st respondent	 together with the other respondents	 constituted the body of landlords and	 by consent	 implicit or otherwise	 of the plurality of landlords	 one of them representing them all	 was collecting rent. In short	 he functioned	 for all practical purposes as the landlord	 and was therefore entitled to institute proceedings qua land lord. This Court	 in Sri Ram Pasricha(1) clarified that a co owner is as much an owner of the entire property as any sole owner of the property is: "Jurisprudentially	 it is not correct to say that a co owner of property is not its owner. He owns very part of the composite property alongwith others and it cannot be said that he is only a part owner or a fractional owner of the property . It is therefore	 not possible to accept the submission that the plaintiff	 who is admittedly the landlord and co owner of the premises	 is not the owner of the premises within the meaning of section 13 '(1) (f). It is not necessary to establish that the plain tiff is the only owner of the property for the purpose of section 13 (1) (f) as long as he is a co owner of the property	 being at the same time acknowledged landlord of the defendants. " That case also was one for eviction under the rent control law of Bengal. The law having been thus put beyond doubt	 the contention that the absence of the other co owner on record disentitled the first respondent from suing for eviction	 fails. We are not called upon to consider the piquant situation that might arise if some of the co owners wanted the tenant to continue contrary to the relief claimed by the evicting co owner. Shri Nariman urged that the will had not been proved and that he had not been given an opportunity to establish his challenge of the will of Shri Das. In the High Court the other co heirs were parties and there is nothing on record to show that they objected to the claim of the 1st respond ent to the first floor on the strength of the will from his father. An objection for the sake of an objection which has no realistic foundation	 cannot be entertained seriously for the sake of processual punctiliousness. We do not agree with the contention. The last	 and yet the lethal objection which had been lost sight of in the High Court	 although raised there	 loomed large before this Court	 in Shri Nariman 's arguments. The admitted fact is that on the same ground of the govern ment 's order to vacate	 the first respondent had evicted a dwelling house on the first floor and is keeping it vacant. He is again using the same Order to vacate passed by the government to evict the appellant 's dwelling house. This is obviously contrary to the intendment of section 14A and is interdicted by the proviso to section 14A(1). It is true that when an officer is sought to be evicted by the govern ment from its premises he has to be rehabilitated in his own house by an accelerated remedial procedure provid (1) (1976) 4 s.c.c. 184 417 ed by section 14A read with section 28B of the Act. But this emergency provision available merely to put the govern ment servant back into his own residential accommodation cannot be used as a weapon for evicting several tenants if he has many houses let out to various persons. The object of section 14A is fulfilled once the landlord recovers immediate possession of his premises from one of his ten ants. The right is exhausted.	 thereby and is not available for continual applications for eviction against all other tenants holding under him. This is made clear by the. provi so which makes plain that the section shall not be construed as conferring a right on a landlord owing two or more dwell ing houses to recover possession of more than one dwelling house. Of course it gives him the choice since the proviso states that it shall be lawful for such landlord to indi cate	 the particular dwelling house among a plurality owned by him	 possession of which he intends to recover. He can ordinarily recover one dwelling house 'but no more. In the present case	 admittedly he has recovered one dwelling house consisting of a three room apartment on the first floor by using the precise ground under section 14A(1). It neces sarily follows that he cannot use section 14A for evicting the ' tenant appellant from another dwelling house. On the last ground	 therefore	 the appeal must be allowed	 although in the circumstances we .direct the parties to: bear their costs throughout. Counsel on both sides; on the suggestion by the court	 calculated to produce a salutary relationship between the parties	 agreed that the three room dwelling house which lies vacant (having been evicted under section 14A) will be given possession of to the appellant in exchange for the appellant making over possession of the 4 room apartment the premises involved in the present case to gether with the appartement space. The appellant has agreed to pay a sum of Rs. 250/ per month by way of rent for the adjacent three room apartment into which he will move	 within one month from today and surrender possession of the 4 room apartment simultaneously. In case the parties are able to adjust their differences and the 1st respondent makes over the additional space attached to the 4 room tenement for the use of the appellant	 he will pay an extra sum of Rs. 75/ per mensem or other negotiated figure. On these terms agreed to before us by counsel on both sides	 after taking instructions from their parties	 we direct that the 1st respondent do make over possession of the three room dwelling house on the first floor and take in exchange the 4 room dwelling house which is the subject matter of the present eviction proceedings. We record this undertaking as indicated above and with this modification	 allow the appeal. P.H.P. Appeal allowed.

The respondent No. 1 is an Under Secretary in the Central Government He was in occupation of residential premises allotted to him by the Central Government and was required by the Government order to vacate such residential accommo dation on the ground that he owned in Delhi a residential accommodation in his own name at Shakti Nagar. The Shakti Nagar House is a two storeyed house. The first floor was let out to the appellant tenant and the ground floor to another tenant. Relying on section 14A of the Delhi Rent Control Act	 1958	 the respondent evicted the tenant on the ground floor. Thereafter	 the respondent sought eviction of the appellant on the same ground. The Controller direct ed eviction refusing leave to the tenant to contest the application for eviction. The Revision Application filed by the appellant before the High Court failed. In appeal by special leave the appellant contended: (1) In view of the eviction of the tenant on the ground floor the right of the respondent to evict the tenant under section 14A was exhausted. (2) The respondent No. 1 claims to be a legatee of the deceased landlord under a Will. He has not got the will probated. (3) Respondent No. 1 is only one of the co owners and	 therefore	 cannot file the application for eviction. (4) The respondent No. 1 has not let out the premises to the appellant and the premises does not stand in the name of the respondent No. 1. At the hearing	 the parties settled their dispute by agree ing that the appellant would vacate the first floor premises consisting of 4 rooms and shift to the ground floor and respondent No. 1 would be handed over the possession of the first floor. The parties also agreed to certain adjustment in the rent. Disposing of the appeal in terms of the compromise the Court observed: (1) The landlord cannot use the same weapon. of section 14A in getting two dwelling houses vacated. It is contrary to the intendment of section 14A. The object of section 14A is fulfilled once the landlord recovers immediate possession of his premises from one of his tenants. The right is exhausted thereby and is not available for continual applications for eviction against all other tenants holding under him. This is made clear by the proviso to .s. 14A(1) which makes plain that the section shall.not be construed as conferring a right on a landlord owning two or more dwelling houses to recover possession of more than one dwelling house. Of course	 it gives choice to the landlord to indicate the particular house among a plurality owned by him	 the pos session of which he intends to recover. [417 A D] (2) A co owner is as much an owner of the entire proper ty as any sole owner of the property. He owns every part of the composite property along with others and it cannot be said that he is only a part owner. The absence of other co owners on record cannot disentitle the first respondent from suing for eviction. From the definition of landlord in section 2(c) and tenant in section 2(1) when read in the context of the Rent Control Law is the simple sense of the situation is that there should be a building which is let. There must be a landlord who 413 collects rent and a tenant who pays it to the one whom he recognises as landlord. The complications of estoppel or the concepts of the Transfer of Property Act need not neces sarily or inflexibly be imported in the proceedings under the Rent Control Law	 tried by special Tribunals under a special statute. The Court left open the question if some co owner seek eviction of a tenant and others oppose it whether such application would be maintainable. [416 C E]