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It would appear that consequent upon Rent Acts made by the State legislature to protect unreasonable eviction of the tenants by the landlord's torrent racket and when tenants taking aid of accrued statutory tenancy, commit default in the payment of rent and drive the landlords to recover the same by filing civil suits, undue delay in disposal of the suits cause considerable hardship to the landlords. To remedy the situation of occupation of the building without paying arrears or accumulated arrears of rent, with a view to restoring the equilibrium between the competing interests of the tenants and landlords and to relieve the latter from hardship, the State legislature stepped in and introduced Rule 5 to Order 15 so as to enable the landlord to make an application to the Court for direction to pay the admitted rent and on an order passed in that behalf and on failure to comply therewith, the Court is empowered to strike off the defence of the tenant so as to enable the landlord to have the suit decreed and to recover possession and arrears of rent.