Devan Ramachandran, J.

The tenants, who have suffered the discomfiture of two orders against them from the courts below, ordering their eviction from the petition schedule properties, have come up before us in this revision.

2. The contentions of the tenants/petitioners herein are foundationalised on certain very specific legal issues impelled along with the rather routine defences against claims of landlords for eviction on grounds of bonafide need.

3. We will deal with the contentions presently, after we place on record certain essential facts.

4. R.C.P.No.6 of 2014 on the files of the Rent Control Court, Vatakara, from which this revision arises, was filed by respondents 1 and 2 herein, who concededly are the owners of the petition schedule shoprooms. The said schedule consists of three items: the first consisting of eight rooms, the second consisting of four rooms and the third consisting of one room of the same building. The third respondent is the father of the second respondent and the husband of the first respondent. In other words, respondents 1 and 2 are mother and daughter, who are the owners of the petition schedule properties and the third respondent, being their hu