( 1 ) WHEN can an owner be said to bona fide require a premises for his residence ? Are the need of the owner an,d its extent justifiable ? If so. what is the criterion to determine the reasonable need of an owner ? These are some of the important questions that fall for coiisideration in these Second Appeals, four by different tenants and three by the owners of the property in dispute which assail a common order of the Rent Control Tribunal by which the Tribunal confirmed the order of the Additional Rent Controller allowing eviction of four tenants and dismissing lhe petitions of the owners for the eviction of the other three. These appeals were filed in the backdrop of the following circumstances;

( 2 ) INDER Saran and his widowed mother, lndrani Saran, for short, the owners, are displaced persons from West Pakistan and had apparently affluent background prior to the partition of lndia. Their claim to the immoveable property left by the family behind on, the partition of India is said to have been verified at a figure of Rs. 35 laths. That the family lived in Lahore before partition in, a 20 room mansion and soon after partition the owners, being then the only memb