1. This is a petition under S.115 of the Civil Procedure Code to revise an order of the District Judge, Trivandrum passed by him under S.20 of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1959 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). This case was filed as an Original Petition under Art.226 of the Constitution; but in the light of the Full Bench decision of this Court in Ouseph Vareed v. Mary (1968 KLT. 583) that the District Court exercising jurisdiction under S.20 of the Act is a civil court and its decision is amenable to the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court, the petitioner moved by CMP. No 4752 for the Original Petition being converted as a Civil Revision Petition; and it has been allowed.

2. The petitioner is the Young Women's Christian Association, Trivandrum; and respondents 1 and 2 are the tenants of a building, which belongs to the petitioner. The tenancy came into existence long before 1st April 1940. The petitioner filed an application under S.11(7) of the Act before the third respondent, the Principal Munsiff, Trivandrum, who is the Rent Controller under the Act, for eviction of the tenants on the ground that the landlord required the building for