This is a revision filed by the tenants against an order of eviction dated 29-06-2006 passed by the learned Additional Chief Judge, City small Causes Court, Hyderabad, in R.A.No.326 of 2002.

2. The landlord filed an eviction petition being R.C.No. 306 of 2000 on the file of the I Additional Rent Controller, Hyderabad, on various grounds and it, was dismissed by order dated 11th September, 2002. In appeal, the order was reversed and eviction was ordered on the ground of willful default. Aggrieved thereby, the tenants preferred the present revision petition.

3. The only question agitated before this Court is that there had been no willful default by the tenants and the rents had been deposited regularly and intimation of deposit of rents had also been given to the land lord in terms of the A.P. Buildings (Lease, Rent & Eviction) Control Rules, 1960 (for short ‘the Rules’).

4. The learned Rent Controller observed that the case of the landlord was that the tenants had not deposited the rents for the months of June, July and August, 2000. But, the landlord himself exhibited Ex.P-3 ledger extract, which showed at Serial Nos.4,5 and 6 that the rent for the months of June