In 2016, the Himachal Pradesh High Court declared which section of the Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987, as amended by H.P. Act No. 8 of 2012, unconstitutional in its entirety?

In Chaman Lal Bali v. State of Himachal Pradesh (2016), the High Court struck down section 4, which laid down the procedure for determining standard rent, and held sections 5 to 8 and 30(2) invalid only so far as they depend on standard rent fixed under section 4, other than agreed rent. Section 14 survived except for the first proviso to clause (c) of sub-section (3), on the modalities of a tenant’s re-entry; the right of re-entry itself was upheld. Sections 2 and 3 were not declared unconstitutional.