Tarun Chatterjee, J.: This case has a chequered history. Therefore, we like to narrate the facts anterior to the filing of the present appeal.

2. The predecessor-in-interest of the respondent Nos. 1 to 14 inducted M/s. Vega Trading Corporation (In short “the Corporation”) a firm carrying on business on and from B-8, Lalbazar Street, P.S. Hare Street, Calcutta under a registered deed of lease executed by them on 23rd April, 1948. The Corporation, thereafter, inducted several tenants in different portion of the premises in question. In the year 1960, the predecessor-in-interest of the respondent Nos. 1 to 14 brought an ejectment suit being Ejectment Suit No. 978/60 in the City Civil Court at Calcutta seeking eviction of the Corporation on the grounds of non-payment of rent and sub-letting. The eviction suit was however, dismissed by the City Civil Court at Calcutta. In 1972, the respondent Nos. 1 to 14 filed another suit for eviction in the City Civil Court at Calcutta which was registered as, Ejectment Suit No. 650/72 on the grounds of non-payment of rent and sub-letting. This time on 26th February, 1974, the aforesaid Ejectment Suit was however, decreed in favour of responde