JUDGMENT

DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. - Leave granted.

2. Challenge in this appeal is to the order passed by the learned Single Judge of the Allahabad High Court dismissing the writ petition filed by the appellant. Challenge in the writ petition was to the order passed by the C prescribed authority as affirmed by the Appellate Authority allowing the release application of Respondent 1 landlady.

3. Sans unnecessary details factual position is as follows:

Late Ram Govil was tenant of a shop situated at Ansari Road, Bulandshahr since 1941. Smt Maqsoodan purchased the aforesaid shop on 11 - 12 - 1979 from Shri Ganesh Datt, the erstwhile landlord. She moved Release Application No. RC 31 of 1984 under Section 21(1)(a) of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (in short "the Act") for the need of her son Shamshad Ahmad. In the release application, Respondent 1 landlady prayed that the shop was urgently required as her husband intended to start business of repairing firearms from the disputed shop for her son Shamshad Ahmad.

4. The release application was contested by the appellant tenant by filing written statement and denying the stand. He took t