( 1 ) THE respondent in the Civil Revision petition filed under Section 22 of A. P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control act, 1960, in short referred to as "act" hereinafter, is the landlord and the petitioner in R. C. C. No. 1/93 on the file of Rent Controller-District Munsif, bheemunipatnam. The Revision Petitioners are tenants and the legal representatives of the tenants since certain parties died pending litigation.

( 2 ) FOR the purpose of convenience, the parties will be referred to as "landlord" and "tenants".

( 3 ) THE landlord filed R. C. C. No. 1/93 as petitioner in the said R. C. C. seeking the relief of eviction of the tenants pleading in the eviction petition as follows: the petitioner herein is the owner of the petition schedule property for which he has been regularly paying the taxes on the property to the Bheemunipatnam municipality under Assessment No. 259 and the said schedule building was given on lease under a registered lease deed dated 1-7-1940 to one Kaligotla Suryanarayana on a monthly rent of Rs. 2. 13 annas and in or about 1974, the said Suryanarayana died and the respondents herein being the legal heirs of the deceased attorned