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19. The eviction order passed by the learned Rent Controller was confirmed by the learned Rent Control Appellate Authority, however, the petitioner herein has not preferred any revision petition within 60 days as per Section 25 of the Rent Control Act for the reasons best known to him.

20. It is not in dispute that it has been made clear by the Hon'ble Apex Court that efficacious alternate remedy does not operate as a bar to exercise the Jurisdiction of Writ Court and Judicial review is a basic structure of the Constitution. Availability of an alternate remedy cannot be a bar in a case of enforcement of a fundamental right and where there is failure in following principles of natural justice and the impugned order has been passed wholly without jurisdiction or against law. It has been made crystal clear that the extra ordinary power is vested with this Court, to maintain revision petitions under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, only to meet the ends of justice and not for bye-passing any law.