S. Nainar Sundaram, J.

1. In this revision, the landlord within the meaning of the Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, (XVIII of 1960), hereinafter referred to as "the Act" is the petitioner. The respondent herein is the sub-tenant. The landlord filed a petition, H. R. C. No. 115 of 1976 on the file of the Rent Controller of Nilgiris, Gudalur, for eviction under Section 10(2)(i) for wilful default, Section 10(2)(ii)(a) for sub-letting and Section 14(1)(b) for demolition and reconstruction under the Act, against five respondents of whom the respondent herein was the fifth. Respondents 1 to 4 before the Rent Controller were the legal representatives of one Ahamed Hussain, who was the original tenant of the premises in question. Respondents 1 to 4 before the Rent Controller, the legal representatives of the original tenant and who assumed the character of tenants within the meaning of the Act, remained ex parte and did not contest the petition for eviction. The sub-tenant, the respondent herein, alone contested. According to him, the sub letting was done with the consent of the previous landlord Palaniswami Pandaram, who has gifted the property to the present lan