High Court Punjab-Haryana High Court

Baldev Raj vs Laxmi Rani on 7 November, 2008

Punjab-Haryana High Court
Baldev Raj vs Laxmi Rani on 7 November, 2008
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     In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh.


                  Civil Revision No. 6121 of 2008

                      Date of Decision: 7.11.2008


Baldev Raj

                                                            ...Petitioner
                                Versus
Laxmi Rani
                                                         ... Respondent


CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA.


Present: Mr. Harsh Aggarwal, Advocate
         for the petitioner.


Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral)

Learned Rent Controller had provisionally assessed the rent to

be Rs.800/-. The tenant had made oral assertion that the rent was

Rs.200/- per month.

The order of assessing the provisional rent is order of interim

nature. The parties shall get fair opportunity to adduce evidence

regarding determination of rent. It has been held that any deficiency in

the rent can be made good or any excess paid can be adjusted.

Furthermore, Rs.800/- assessed as rent cannot be said to be onerous.

Revisional jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution cannot be

exercised where valid exercise has been done by learned Rent

Controller. The amount of provisional rent assessed be deposited within
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one month from today.

Consequently, there is no merit in the present revision petition

and the same is dismissed.

(Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia)
Judge
November 7, 2008
“DK”