2023 CLC 871 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT

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NOOR RAHMAN VS SHER AFZAL S.13---eviction of tenant---Payment of rent---Scope---Section 13(6) of the West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance, 1959, stipulates that if the tenancy relationship is undisputed, the Rent Controller will direct the tenant to deposit all rent payments due and require regular deposits until the final decision of the case---Tenant must deposit the monthly rent payment before the fifteenth of each month---Rent payment becomes due on the last day of the preceding month, and the Rent Controller has no power to extend the payment deadline---Tenant is also not allowed to deposit the rent at his discretion.