( 1 ) THE revision petitioner assails the judgment dated 24-7-2000 passed by the learned Chief Judge, City Small Causes court, Hyderabad in R. A. No. 56 of 2000.

( 2 ) THE revision petitioner is the respondent in R. C. No. 231 of 1996. The late mother of the respondents herein filed r. C. No. 231 of 1996 seeking eviction of the petitioner on the premise that the petitioner is the tenant of the demised premises and committed wilful default in paying the rents. That petition was resisted by filing a counter denying inter alia the relationship of landlord and tenant inter se between the parties by taking a specific plea that the property in question was gifted to her by the maternal grandfather of the respondents under an oral gift and thereby setting up title over the property.

( 3 ) WHILE the matter stood thus, the mother of the respondents herein filed i. A. No. 853 of 1996 under Sec. 11 (1) of the a. P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) control Act (The Act for brevity) seeking a direction to the petitioner herein to deposit the arrears of rent from November 1995 to september 1996 in a sum of Rs. 4,400. 00 at the rate of Rs. 400. 00per month. That petition was r