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2. The respondent-landlady had filed the eviction petition under Section 14(1)(e) read with Section 25-B of the Act against the petitioners on 31.5.2008. On 02.06.2008 the Additional Rent Controller ordered issuance of summons to the petitioner-tenant under Schedule III of the Act returnable for 25.09.08. The summons were ordered to be sent by ordinary process as well as by registered post but the same were returned back unserved. On 25.09.2008 issuance of fresh summons returnable for 04.12.08 was ordered, but this time the learned counsel while ordering issuance of summons by ordinary process as well as by registered post ordered service by way of affixation also. There is no dispute that this time also the petitioner-tenant was not served personally by the process server and that no summons were issued by registered post. The process server, however, had affixed the summons at the tenanted shop on 04.12.08 when he went there since the shop was found locked at the time of his visit that day.