ORDER : The tenant has preferred this revision petition under S. 25 of the Madras Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act of 1960 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). The respondent who is the landlord filed a petition for the eviction of the tenant on the ground that the tenant was guilty of wilful default in the payment of rent for 18 months from March 1961 to September 1962, that the respondent required the premises, which is a car shed, for his own use and occupation to keep his car, which he had been garaging in a rented shed and that the tenant, having taken the premises as a car shed for garaging his car, was putting it to a different use, storing his goods for umbrella business. Both the Rent Controller as well as the appellate authority held that the landlord had not made out a case for evicting the tenant on the two later grounds. They concurrently held that the property was not leased for the express purpose of being used as a garage, that the tenant had been using the premises for his business purposes only, that the landlord did not require the premises for garaging his car, as the latter had several garages of his own and that, as A matter of fact, certain garages bel

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