( 1 ) THESE three Civil Revision Petitions are disposed of by a common order.

( 2 ) THE interesting question involved in these Civil Revision Petitions is whether the landlord is entitled to seek eviction of the tenants under Section 12 of the A. P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act,1960 (in short the act ).

( 3 ) THE facts, in brief, are as follows: the landlord filed eviction petitions seeking eviction of the three tenants who were in three shops situated in the North-Eastern corner of the landlord s site on the ground that there was wilful default in payment of rent and also on the ground that the landlord s family has been advised for the last several years that as per Vasthu Sastra on the North-Eastern corner shops should not be constructed and that on account of those shops on the North-Easten corner untold misery and grievance and evil was caused to the family and on account of which the landlord s father and mother were bed-ridden for several years before they passed away and the landlord s health also has been very indifferent for the last several years, therefore, he consulted pandits of the vasthu Sastra and they advised him to remove th