Bhaskaran, J.

These Rent Control Revisions are filed against the common judgment of the Additional Rent Control Appellate Authority, Alappuzha, in R.C.A.Nos.20, 37, 38, 40, 41 & 442 of 2001. There were six Rent control Petitions filed by the same landlord against six separate tenants. The tenants were in occupation of a line building in Alappuzha Town. The landlord sought eviction of the buildings on the ground of arrears of rent as against the respondents in R.C.P.Nos.20, 22 and 25 of 1997. He also sought eviction on the ground of bona fide need for occupation against all the respondents. The parties are here-in-after referred to according to their status in the Rent Control Petitions.

2. The Rent Control Petitions were filed stating that the 10 rooms having Municipal Numbers AMCW.19/496 to 503 and 485 and 517 belonged to the landlord as per partition deed No.2465/1987 of S.R.O., Alappuzha. For the purpose of disposal of these revisions, it is not necessary to state the facts of each case the facts are more or less similar. All the Rent Control Petitions are filed by the landlord through his power-of-attorney, Chandresh T. Lodhaya, Sunder Nivas, C.C.N.B. Road, Alappuzha.