JUDGMENT

SABYASACHI MUKHARJI, J. :— This is an appeal by special leave arising from the judgment and order of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur dated 26th Oct. 1977. The landlord-appellant filed the eviction suit against the tenant, the predecessor in interest of the respondents. The appellant runs a girls school, being covered by one of its objects. It needed additional accommodation for the said purpose. The building was also in dilapidated condition. The learned trial Judge as well as Appellate Court ordered eviction under S. 12(f) of the Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961. The respondents were in occupation of an old shed as a tenant in the said house.

2. Section 12(f) of the aforesaid Act gives the landlord the right to evict on the grounds, inter alia, as follows :

"that the accommodation let for non-residential purposes is required bona fide by the landlord for the purpose of continuing or starting his business or that any of his major sons or unmarried daughters if he is the owner thereof or of any person for whose benefit the accommodation is held and that the landlord or such person has no other reasonably suitable non-residential accommodation of hi