M. Fakkir Mohammed, J.

1. The tenant is the revision petitioner. The respondent landlord filed H.R.C.O.P. No. 3 of 1981 for eviction of the tenant under Sections 10(2) and 14(i) of the Tamil Nadu Act XVIII of 1960 on the ground of wilful default in the payment of rent from December, 1979 till date of petition for 14 months and for requirement of the building for demolition and reconstruction on the ground that the building is an old one. The tenant resisted the petition on the grounds that the landlord had sent a notice on 10th October, 1973, asking the tenant to vacate the demised building for the personal occupation of the landlord, that the tenant sent a reply denying the alleged requirement of the landlord at that time, that on 9th January, 1975, the landlord sent another notice asking the tenant to vacate the building on the ground that the building required renovation, that the tenant sent a reply denying the bona fides of the alleged requirement for renovation, that in 1978 the landlord filed H.R.C.O.P. No. 7 of 1978 for eviction on the ground of wilful default in the payment of rent, that the said eviction petition as well as the civil miscellaneous appeal filed by t