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PETITIONER: MOTI RAM
Vs.
RESPONDENT: SURAJ BHAN & OTHERS.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 03/02/1960
BENCH: GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. BENCH: GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. SUBBARAO, K. GUPTA, K.C. DAS
CITATION: 1960 AIR 655 1960 SCR (2) 896 CITATOR INFO : RF 1963 SC 499 (6) D 1968 SC1336 (6) RF 1984 SC1164 (14) RF 1988 SC1060 (6)
ACT: Rent Control-Ejectment-Statute Permitting ejectment for reconstruction of building-Subsequent amendment making of Provision more stinget-Whether retrospective-Statute making appellate order final-Before making of order statute amended by providing revision to High Court-If amendment applies to Pending appealed Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (E.P. 3 Of 949, SS. 13(3)(a)(iii) and 14(4)-East Punjab Urban Rent Rcstriction (Amendment) Act, 1956. (Punj. 29 Of 1956). SS. 2 and 3.
HEADNOTE: On August 28, 1956 the respondent i applied to the Rent Controller for the eviction of the appellant from a shop under S. I3 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949, inter alia on the ground that he wanted to reconstruct the shop. On the date, s. 13(3) (a)(iii) of the Act provided that a landlord may apply for the eviction of his tenant if he required the building f or reconstruction or f or its re placement by another building or for the ere...