V. BHASKARA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THIS revision petition is filed against the judgment in R. A. No. 140 of 1987 on the file of the Chief Judge, City Small Causes Court, Hyderabad, dated 4-10-1980 setting aside the eviction order passed by the Additional Rent controller, Secunderabad in R. C. C. No. 233 of 1983, dated 10-3-1987. The revision petitioner will be referred to as landlord, his step mother who is impleaded as respondent No. 2 as landlady and the contesting respondent no. 1 as tenant.

( 2 ) THE landlord filed the eviction petition on two grounds viz. , (1) that the tenant committed wilful default in payment of rent from March, 1983 to july, 1983 and (2) that the demised premises is required for bona fide occupation of the landlord. The landlord s case is that the premises originally belonged to late Laxminarayana, father of the landlord and husband of the landlady and it was let out to the tenant during his life time. After the death of the original landlord on 1-4-1969, the landlord and the landlady have been receiving the rents at the rate of Rs. 325/- each from the tenant. While so, he failed to pay the rent to the landlord from 1-3-1983 to 30-7-1983 amounting to Rs. 1,625/- and

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