Petitioner is a tenant and the respondent is the landlady of the premises in question bearing Dr.No.11-217 with electricity service connection No.370, which is fully described in the petition schedule situated at Palakonda (Village and Mandal) of Srikakulam District.

2. The parties hereinafter are referred to as they are arrayed in the eviction petition in R.C.C.No.1 of 1993 on the file of the Rent Controller-cum-Junior Civil Judge, Rajam.

3. The landlady filed the eviction petition under Section 10(2)(i) of the A.P. Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act (for short the Act) on the ground of wilful default in payment of rents from August 1992 to June 1993. It is the case of the landlady that she is the owner and enjoyer of two roomed tiled house situated in Gedelavari Street, Ward NO.11 of Palakonda bearing Door NO.11-270 with Electric Service Connection No.370 and she has been attending the maintenance and repairs of the said house by paying the house tax, electrical consumption charges and she has been letting out the house for rent and she was in occupation and the respondent-tenant, who was residing just by the eastern side of her house, took the schedule house on