Section 10 CPC does not stay rent control appeals; inherent powers cannot bypass the statutory limit.

Section 10 CPC applies only to a suit involving the same matter directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted suit between the same parties. Rent control proceedings are not suits and are summary in nature, so a stay under Section 10 is unavailable even if title is disputed in parallel proceedings. Section 151 CPC cannot be used to bypass that statutory limitation or to justify interruption of the rent control appeal merely because a civil appeal challenging the sale deed is pending. The request for stay was therefore not maintainable and was rightly rejected; the revision petition failed.

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Issues: Whether proceedings in a rent control appeal could be stayed under Section 10 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, on the ground that title and the same subject matter were pending in a previously instituted civil appeal.

Analysis: Section 10 applies only to a suit in which the same matter is directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted suit between the same parties. Rent control proceedings are not suits, and the enquiry therein is summary in nature. The mere fact that title is disputed in both proceedings does not make Section 10 applicable. The inherent power under Section 151 cannot be used to grant a stay where the statutory requirement of Section 10 is not satisfied, and the pendency of a civil appeal questioning the sale deed did not justify interruption of the rent control appeal.

Conclusion: The request for stay was not maintainable and was rightly rejected; the revision petition failed.

Ratio Decidendi: Section 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 does not apply to rent control proceedings because they are not suits, and Section 151 cannot be invoked to bypass that limitation.

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