G. Ramanujam, J.

1. This revision is directed against the order of the learned Subordinate Judge, Nagercoil in H.R.A. No. 2 of 1981 setting aside the order of the Rent Controller and allowing the eviction petition filed by the respondent herein. The circumstances under which this revision came to be filed may be briefly stated. The first respondent herein filed an application under Section 14(1) (b) of the Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960, for demolition and reconstruction of the building in the occupation of the petitioner herein. His case was that the building in question bearing Door No. 17 of 1948 stands in the north western corner of a plot of land having an extent of 29 cents and this land with the building is in the occupation of the petitioners herein, that the building and the vacant site was purchased by him for the purpose of locating an oil mill, that in pursuance of the object for which the land and the building had been purchased, necessary machinery had been purchased, that thereafter sanction of the plan for the rice-mill has been obtained and that therefore the, building in the occupation of the tenants is required for demolition and reco