( 1 ) INASMUCH as common questions of law and fact are involved, although the landlords and the tenants are different, all these six Civil Revision Petitions can be disposed of together. CRP Nos. 2312, 2313, 3332 and 3520 of 2001:

( 2 ) THE above revision petitions arise out of R. C. Nos. 192/1996 and 196/1996 on the file of the Additional Rent Controller, secunderabad. The landlord filed the said petitions under Section 4 of the Andhra pradesh Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) control Act, 1960 ( the Act for brevity) seeking fixation of fair rent against two of his tenants in respect of his non- residential premises bearing No. 1-8-91/19/1 and No. 1-8-91/19/2 respectively situate at prenderghast Road, Secunderabad. At the culmination of enquiry, on an appreciation of evidence available on record, the learned rent Controller allowed those two petitions fixing the fair rent at Rs. 4,000/- per month exclusive of the electricity consumption charges and property taxes payable on the premises with effect from 1. 8. 1996 by two separate orders both dated 28. 11. 1998.

( 3 ) IN the appeals filed in R. A. Nos. 361/1998 and 362/1998 by the tenants against those orders the