Judgment

SHARMA, J.:- This appeal by special leave at the instance of the tenant of the premises in question is directed against the decree for his eviction on the ground that the respondent-landlord requires the premises for opening a clinic by his doctor daughter.

2. Admittedly the respondents daughter passed her M.B.B.S. examination and was studying the M.S. course when the present application for eviction was filed before the Rent Controller, Hyderabad. Her husband also is a doctor and is running a clinic at a distance of 6 miles. The respondents daughter is assisting her husband in his clinic but it is claimed by the respondent-landlord that she is desirous of starting a separate clinic and for that purpose the premises in question, let out to the appellant, is suitable. The appellant denied the alleged necessity of the landlord and inter alia pleaded that the sole purpose of the proceeding was to extract higher rent. The Additional Rent Controller, Hyderabad, after examining the evidence led by the parties, rejected the landlords case and dismissed the eviction petition. The Rent controller has stated the manner in which the rent of the premises was raised from time to time fro