Tenant in R.C.O.P.No.8 of 1996 on the file of the Rent Controller, Arni, is the revision petitioner.

2. Parties herein will be referred to according to their rank before the Rent Controller.

.3. Landlord filed an application for eviction on the ground that he requires the schedule building for his own occupation as additional accommodation and also on the ground that the building requires immediate demolition and re-construction. It is the case of the landlord that he purchased all the shop rooms bearing Door Nos.85/N, 85/O, 85/P and 85/Q as per sale deed dated 2. 1993. Respondent who was earlier a tenant continued to be the tenant of the landlord after purchase and they have attorned the tenancy. It is further averred that landlords are doing wholesale and retail business under the name and style of ‘Baggiyam & Co’ in a rented building. It is their case that they wanted to do business in their own building and so has purchased the four shops. All the four shops constitute a single building and each of the shops is separated by a thin wall. The landlord who is having several business in his name, his fathers name, mothers name and wifes name, has removed the intervening