TARUN CHATTERJEE, J.

( 1 ) LEAVE granted.

( 2 ) AN eviction petition being HRC No. 233 of 2002 was filed before the Chief judge, Small Cause Court, Bangalore for eviction of the appellant from the residential premises bearing No. 100, Surveyor Street, Bangalore-4 (in short "the suit premises") under Section 27 (2) (r) read with Section 31 of the Karnataka Rent Act (in short "the Act") on the ground that since the suit premises is old and in a dilapidated condition, the same was required to be demolished in order to put up a new construction and that the respondent required the suit premises for use and occupation by herself and her children after demolition and reconstruction of the same as she and her children were staying in her father-in-law's house. It was also the case of the respondent that the appellant had been residing in the suit premises for more than 20 years and therefore, he should find his own sukable accommodation and accordingly, he was liable to be evicted.

( 3 ) A written statement was filed by the appellant in which the allegations made in the eviction petition were denied and it was stated that the respondent was not entitled to evict the appellant as she di