https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=301261 Section 20 of the Tripura Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1975 does not make an appeal incompetent merely because the tenant has not first paid or deposited all admitted arrears of rent. Section 13(1) must be read with Sections 13(2), 13(3) and 20(4), preserving the appellate authority's power to quantify arrears, grant time for deposit, and halt proceedings for non-compliance without sufficient cause. The phrase "prefer an appeal" is construed as an effective invocation of the appellate remedy, not just the filing of a memorandum. The appeal was therefore maintainable without prior deposit and could not be rejected on that ground alone. en-us Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:19:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=301261 Section 20 of the Tripura Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1975 does not make an appeal incompetent merely because the tenant has not first paid or deposited all admitted arrears of rent. Section 13(1) must be read with Sections 13(2), 13(3) and 20(4), preserving the appellate authority's power to quantify arrears, grant time for deposit, and halt proceedings for non-compliance without sufficient cause. The phrase "prefer an appeal" is construed as an effective invocation of the appellate remedy, not just the filing of a memorandum. The appeal was therefore maintainable without prior deposit and could not be rejected on that ground alone. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=301261