( 1 ) THE revision petitioner is the tenant. Respondent No. 1-landlord filed R. C. No. 272 of 1988 on the file of the learned additional Rent Controller, Secunderabad seeking eviction under Section 10 (2) (iii) of the A. P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and eviction) Control Act, 1960 (hereafter referred to as the Act ) seeking eviction of the tenant from the schedule, premises on the ground that the tenant has committed acts of waste which materially impaired the value and utility of the premises. The factual matrix of the case of the petitioner before the learned Rent Controller is set out as hereunder: the petitioner-landlord is the owner of the premises bearing No. 108/6, Park Lane, secunderabad which consists of ground floor and first floor. Late Sri Tarachand, husband of the tenant, has obtained premises on rent from the landlord s grandfather through a letter dated 3-11-1972 intimating the tenant about the execution of the lease deed and also the attornment of the premises in favour of the petitioner. Thus the petitioner became the landlord of the scheduled premises. The tenants-respondents before the learned Rent controller are the legal representatives of late