( 1 ) IN this revision petition under Section 22 of Andhra Pradesh Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act, 1960 (hereinafter called the Act ) the landlords are petitioners. They sued the respondents (hereinafter called, the tenants ) for eviction from a residential premises by filing R. C. No. 224 of 1984 under Section 10 (2) (i) of the act alleging that the tenants committed chronic default in paying the monthly rent. The learned II Additional Rent Controller, hyderabad, by order dated 25-8-1993 in r. C. No. 224 of 1984 allowed the petition and directed the tenants to handover the premises to the landlords. In the ensuing tenants appeal under Section 20 of the Act, the learned Additional Chief Judge and appellate authority under the Act reversed the order of the Rent Controller and dismissed the rent control petition. Hence, this revision.

( 2 ) THE case of the landlords has a chequered carrier spanning over a period of almost thirty years. For the purpose of this case, it is only necessary to notice the case of the landlords in brief. The premises bearing no. 4-1-1079 ( the premises for brevity) belongs to one Sri B. B. Mehta, who died in 1980 leaving