India, Dec. 24 -- The Supreme Court has sought a report from the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the conduct of a rent controller in Gurugram who passed an eviction order in a matter listed before another judge, without issuing notice to the affected tenant.

"In our view, in a rent matter when the judge is on leave, passing an order by the in-charge judge on merits without notice prima facie is not tenable," a bench of justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi observed in an order passed on December 17.

The bench directed the high court's registrar general to submit a report after seeking explanations from the judge concerned and from the principal district and sessions judge at the Gurugram district courts.

The court asked that the re...