( 1 ) A double-storeyed house on Original Road, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, belongs to Kamla Soni respondent. The first floor of the house is let to Roop Lal appellant. The landlady applied for the tenant s eviction from the first floor on the ground that she bonafide required it for occupation as a residence for herself and that she had "no other reasonably suitable residential accommodation. " It appears that at the same time by a separate application, the landlady had asked for the eviction of another tenant who was in occupation of the ground-floor of the house and that portion was vacated by that tenant and became available for occupation by the landlady. The respondent did not go into the occupation of that portion and in support of her claim for eviction said that she actually needed the whole of the house, as she and her family had decided to shift to Delhi from Ambala and they were not used to live in any house in which another person or another tenant may be living. This allegation was made in answer to the obvious suggestion forthcoming in defence that the respondent was in a position to occupy the groundfloor vacated by the other tenant and that that flat was suff