R. Sengottuvelan, J.

1. The civil revision petitioner before this Court is a landlord in respect of non-residential building bearing Door No. 18, Main Road, Sattur, Ramanathapuram District. The respondent herein had been a tenant in the said building, under the civil revision petitioner, on a monthly rent of Rs. 135 and the building is being occupied by the Co-optex Sales Emporium. The civil revision petitioner filed an application in H.R.C.C. No. 5 of 1978 on the file of the Rent Controller, Sattur for eviction of the respondent herein, on the ground that he required the premises for his own hotel business. The case of the civil revision petitioner before the House Rent Controller is that himself and his son had been running a hotel business in a rented building bearing Door No. 255, Trunk Road, Satturv belonging to Krishnaswamy Naicker, son of Guruswami Naicker. The said Krishnaswamy Naicker had been pressing the tenant, the civil revision petitioner herein to vacate the aforesaid building. He also started legal proceedings and under a compromise entered into between the said Krishnaswamy Naicker and the civil revision petitioner herein under a document dated 13th March, 1977