JUDGMENT

N. VENKATACHALA, J. - This is a tenants appeal by special have granted under Article 136 of the Constitution. It is directed against the judgment and order dated 22-12-1981 of the High Court of Judicature at Madras in CRP No. 1923 of 1981 by which an eviction order made by the courts below against the tenant/appellant under Section 10(3) (a) (iii) of the Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960 - "the Act", was affirmed.

2. Messrs Fakruddin and Company is a partnership firm the business of which was formerly carried on by Thyabally Rasuljee, Respondent 1 at non-residential building No. 155, Linghi Chetty Street, Madras, taken on rent, not being his own.

3. Messrs Super Forgings & Steels Ltd., a company registered under the Indian Companies Act is the tenant, which was carrying on its business in a non-residential building No. 118, Linghi Chetty Street, Madras - "the petition non-residential building" of which Respondent 1 was the landlord. The landlord filed a petition against the tenant on the ground available to him under Section 10(3) (a) (iii) of the Act before the Rent Controller at Madras for eviction of the tenant from the petition non-residential buil