1. This revision is against the order passed by the Rent Controller, Thiruvannamalai in I.A.No. 10/1995 in R.C.O.P.No. 18/1994, in which the learned Rent Controller has allowed the petitioner in I.A. 10/95 who is a third party to be impleaded as a party to the proceedings.

2. The Rent control Original Petition has been filed by the respondents 1 and 2 in the said Interlocutory Application, as landlords seeking eviction of the third respondent in the said I.A., on the ground of wilful default in payment of rent and on the ground of denial of title of the landlords by the tenants.

3. The learned Rent Controller, after considering the rival contentions of both parties viz., the petitioner and the respondents 1 and 2 in the interlocutory application, has come to the conclusion that the petitioner is a necessary and proper party to be impleaded in the Rent Control original petition even though he has observed that in the Rent Control Petition, it cannot be decided who is the owner of the petition-mentioned property.

4. Section 2(6) of the Tamil Nadu Building (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960, defines “landlord” as follows:

“‘landlord’ includes the person who is receiving or