( 1 ) AGGRIEVED by the order of eviction, dated 21-8-1998, passed by the learned Rent controller (Junior Civil Judge), Palakol in r. C. C. No. 24 of 1984 as affirmed by the learned Senior Civil Judge, Narsapur by order, dated 29-8-2000, in C. M. A. No. 18 of 1998, this civil revision petition was filed.

( 2 ) THE facts are not in dispute. The first petitioner took the petition schedule building from the first respondent on a monthly rent of Rs. 300. 00 for a period of 5 years from 1-4-1976 to 31-3-1981 under a registered lease deed for running a canteen (hotel ). During the subsistence of the said lease, he took the upstairs portion of the petition schedule building on a monthly rent of Rs. 80. 00 under a registered lease deed, dated 24-8-1977. After expiry of the lease period, the first petitioner continued as tenant by enhancing the rent to rs. 500/- per month from 1-10-1982. While the case of the first respondent was that the first petitioner on 1-1-1984 executed fresh unregistered lease deed for a period of 5 years, the case of the first petitioner was that he did not execute the lease deed but it was only the second petitioner that executed the lease deed. I