( 1 ) SHRI A. N. Pareekh, tenant, has brought this petitionunder Section 25-B (8) of the Delhi Rent Control Act (hereinafter REFERRED TO toas the Act ) challenging the eviction order dated 2/04/1987, of Shri Premkumar, Additional Rent Controller, passed against him on the ground ofeviction covered by clause (e) of sub-section (1) of Section 14 of the Act inrespect of the southern unit of house No. Z-7, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, asshown in red colour in the plan Ex. AW1/1.

( 2 ) THE petitioner has challenged the order of eviction on two grounds,firstly that the finding of the Additional Rent Controller that the premises inquestion had been let out to the petitioner-tenant only for residential purposesis perverse and wrong and secondly, that the Additional Rent Controller haswrongly come to the conclusion that the respondent-landlord is not in possession of alternate reasonably suitable accommodation.

( 3 ) THE facts, in brief, are that the respondent has been holdinghigh official positions in the Government as he held the post of Secretary,central Board of Revenue, later on Commissioner of Income-Tax, Directorof Inspection, Income-Tax Investigation, a job equivalent to the p