These are the days when the rent case flares up and the rent controller appears intent on securing an early eviction. Priya Nath has to defend the case, but he cannot leave Shri Nathji and go to the courts. His advocate places an application before the rent controller that Priya Nath’s father is down with a heart attack, but the rent controller turns down the application and fixes the case for a day-to-day hearing. This would mean Priya Nath would have to go to the courts every day for several days or weeks. It was unthinkable for Priya Nath, but so was the thought of losing the case, as they had no other house to live in. Just then the rent controller has a heart attack himself and the entire case is adjourned for several weeks.