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(1) 12) (3) (4) (5) lf the landlord or his authorized agent reluses or neglects to pass to the tenant the receipl referred to in sub-seclion (2) of section 15, the Controller may, on an application made to him in this behalf by the tenant within two months trom the date of payment and atter hearing the landlord or his authorized agent, by order direct the Iandlord or his authorized agent to pay to the tenant, by way of damages, such sum not exceeding double the amount of monthly rent or other charges paid by the tenant and the costs of the application and shall also grant a certilicate to the tenant in respect of the rent or other charges paid. lf the landlord or his authorised agent refuses to accept or evades acceptance of receipt of rent and olher charges, the tenant may, by notrce in writing, ask the landlord to supply him the particulars of his bank account in a bank located near to the building. lflhe landlord furnishes the particulars of his bank account, the tenant shall deposit the rent and other charges payable in such bank account from time to time. lf the landlord does not furnish the particulars of the bank account under sub-section (2), the tenant shall remit the rent and the other charges payable to the landlord, from time to time, through postal money order afterdeducting the necessary postal charges. Where any bonafide doubt or dispute has arisen as to the person who is entitled to receive any rent in respect of any building, the tenant may Deposit ol rent by tenant on refusal of the landlord to accept it or in case of doubt or dispute as to the person entitled to receive it. CHAPTER - V DEPOSIT OF RENTS (6)