Ronojit Kumar Mtira, J.:

1. This application was made under clause 13 of the Letters Patent and section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 for the transfer to this Court certain eviction proceedings being E.O./146/ 1995 (L.I.C. of India vs. S.N. Bhalotia & Ors.) pending at present before the Estate Officer. It has also been prayed in the petition that the eviction proceedings upon being transferred to this Court be heard analogously with the Suit No......... of 1995 (L.I.C. of India vs. S.N. Bhalotia) which at present was pending before this Court. The petitioner had obtained an ex parte ad interim order on June 23, 1999 and the proceedings before the Estate Officer had been stayed. Parties had filed their affidavits in accordance with the Court's direction in that respect.

2. In order to decide the contentions of the parties and the prepositions of law put forward by counsels on their behalf I found it essential to refer to the facts and circumstances of the case. The petitioner was a lessee, under the respondent No.1 Life Insurance Corporation of India, hereinafter referred to as LIC, of the second floor of the Oriental Building being premises Nos. 2 & 3 Clive Row, C