Deposit of rent with the Rent Controlling Authority

15. (1)

1. (a) Where the landlord does not accept any rent and other charges payable or refuses to give a receipt, the rent and other charges shall be sent to the landlord by postal money order consecutively for two months, and if the landlord does not accept the rent and other charges within this period, then the tenant may deposit the same in the Rent Controlling Authority.
2. (b) Whenever there is bonafide doubt about the person or persons to whom the rent etc. is payable, the tenant may deposit such rent and other charges before the Rent Controlling Authority.

1. (2) On deposit of the rent, the Rent Controlling Authority shall investigate the case and pass an order based on facts of the case.
2. (3) The withdrawal of rent and other charges payable deposited under sub-section
3. (1) shall not operate as an admission against the person withdrawing it to the correctness of rent or any other fact stated by the tenant.
4. (4) Any rent and other charges not withdrawn for five years by any person entitled to withdraw shall be forfeited by the Government.