IN THE COURT OF THE RENT CONTROLLER, Chandigarh
(the Civil Judge (Junior Division) exercising the powers of a Rent Controller under the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949)
Rent Petition No. ______________ of 20______
(number to be allotted by the Registry on institution)
Jurisdiction for which this petition is drawn: Punjab
Where the demised premises lie: Tehsil and District Ludhiana, Punjab
READ THIS BEFORE THE PETITION IS SIGNED, SWORN OR PRESENTED. This petition is drawn for Punjab. Exactly one of the two location lines above must have printed - the Punjab line for a Punjab property, the Chandigarh line for a property in the Union Territory. If both printed, or if neither did, the wrong location box was filled in on the form, the wrong set of local paragraphs has printed below, and this petition is wrong on its face. Four further checks, each of which the form cannot make for you, and every one of which has sunk a real petition:
(a) PUNJAB AND THE DATE OF LETTING. If the Punjab line printed, paragraph 4 must show a date of letting BEFORE 30.11.2013, and paragraph 5-B must have printed. A Punjab letting on or after 30.11.2013 is not governed by this Act at all: it is governed by the Punjab Rent Act, 1995, the remedy is an application under sub-section (2) of section 20 in the Form specified in Schedule XII, and this is the wrong document for it. For a property in the Union Territory the date of letting makes no difference, because the 1949 Act applies there whenever the premises were let.
(b) AT LEAST ONE GROUND, WITH ITS PARTICULARS. Paragraph 8 names the principal ground at its head. Below that head there must appear at least one block of particulars, and one of those blocks must be the block for the ground so named. A paragraph 8 that names a ground and gives no particulars pleads nothing: it will be returned at the counter or dismissed at the threshold.
(c) SECTION 13-A, THE CLASS OF BUILDING, AND THE HEAD OF THE PETITION. If paragraph 1-A has printed, then paragraph 3 must describe the demised premises as a residential building or as a scheduled building, and the head of this petition must name section 13-A read with section 18-A. Section 13-A gives a specified landlord immediate possession of those two classes of building and of nothing else. If paragraph 3 says a non-residential building or rented land, take out the specified-landlord answers and plead bona fide personal necessity under sub-section (3) of section 13 instead. Conversely, if the head of this petition names section 13-A and paragraph 1-A has not printed, the specified-landlord questions were left blank and the petition names a provision it does not plead.
(d) ORAL OR WRITTEN. If paragraph 4 describes the tenancy as oral and then also gives the date of a written instrument, one of those two answers is wrong. Fix it before anybody swears the affidavit.
IN THE MATTER OF:
Sh. Harbans Lal Sharma, aged about 68 years, son of Late Sh. Ram Lal Sharma, resident of House No. 1234, Sector 21-B, Chandigarh 160022; mobile +91 XXXXX XXXXX; email harbanslal.sharma@example.com.
... PETITIONER (LANDLORD)
VERSUS
Sh. Rakesh Kumar Bansal, son of Sh. Om Parkash Bansal, in occupation at Shop No. 7, Sector 22-D, Chandigarh 160022.
... RESPONDENT (TENANT)
Petition under sub-section (2) of section 13 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 for an order of ejectment directing the Respondent to put the Petitioner in vacant and peaceful possession of the demised premises described in the Schedule below, for the recovery of the arrears of rent with interest thereon, and for damages for use and occupation and the costs of these proceedings.
Valued for the purpose of court fee at ₹78,000 (Rupees Seventy Eight Thousand only).
RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH:
- THE PETITIONER AND HIS TITLE. That the Petitioner is the owner of the demised premises described in the Schedule at the foot of this petition, having acquired the same by purchase under a registered sale deed, the particulars whereof are: Sale Deed No. 4172 dated 11.08.2004, registered with the Sub-Registrar, U.T. Chandigarh. The Petitioner is entitled to receive the rent of the demised premises on his own account and is accordingly the landlord thereof within the meaning of clause (c) of section 2 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (hereinafter called "the Act"). Copies of the documents of title are filed herewith.
1-A. THE PETITIONER IS A SPECIFIED LANDLORD. That the Petitioner holds, or has held, an appointment in public service in the post of Superintendent Grade-I under the Office of the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court, and retired, or is due to retire, from that appointment on 1 April 2026. A certificate to that effect, issued by the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court as the authority competent to remove the Petitioner from service, is filed with this petition, together with the Petitioner's affidavit that he does not own and possess any other suitable accommodation in the local area in which he intends to reside. The demised premises being a residential building, they are of a class in respect of which section 13-A of the Act confers a right on a specified landlord. The Petitioner is therefore a specified landlord within the meaning of the Act, this petition is presented within one year prior to, or within one year after, the date of his retirement, and a right to recover immediately the possession of the demised premises has accrued to the Petitioner under section 13-A of the Act. The Petitioner has not previously obtained possession of any residential building or scheduled building in that local area in the exercise of the right conferred by section 13-A.
- THE RESPONDENT. That the Respondent is in occupation of the demised premises as the tenant of the Petitioner and is a tenant within the meaning of clause (i) of section 2 of the Act. The relationship of landlord and tenant subsists between the Petitioner and the Respondent, and the Respondent has been paying, or has been liable to pay, rent to the Petitioner throughout. The Petitioner discloses, of his own motion, that the Respondent has at some time denied the relationship of landlord and tenant. The particulars of that denial, and of the Petitioner's answer to it, are as follows.
By his reply dated 02.09.2026 to the Petitioner's notice the Respondent asserted for the first time, after seventeen years of paying rent against receipts, that he had purchased the demised premises from the Petitioner's late father under an oral agreement. No such agreement exists, no consideration was ever paid, and the Respondent produced rent receipt No. 44 dated 06.03.2025 in his own name to the Municipal Corporation in the same month.