S. DASARADHA RAMA REDDI, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner is the tenant who lost in both the Courts below. The respondent-landlord filed the petition under the A. P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act (for short the Act ) seeking eviction of the petitioner from the non-residential premises situated at Meraka Street, Rajahmundry town on the ground that he requires it for his business purposes and also that repairs have to be effected to the building which is old. The tenant filed counter stating that as the respondent owns several non-residential and residential houses in Rajahmundry town, the alleged requirement is not bona fide and that the eviction petition is filed with oblique motive of obtaining enhanced rent. The necessity of effecting repairs is denied. The maintainability of the petition is also challenged on the ground that the petitioner which is a limited company has to be sued represented by its Director or any Principal officer but not the Manager. The learned Rent Controller held that the landlord bona fide requires the premises for carrying on Vani Paper Mart business in the schedule premises, that the landlord does not have any other non- residential premises,

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