The tenant under the Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act 18 of 1960 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the act’) is tie petitioner in this civil revision petition.

2. The respondent-landlord raised three grounds in R.C.O.P.No.95 of 1984 on the file of the Rent Controller, Tirunelveli for securing the eviction of the petitioner. But, this civil revision petition is concerned only with one of the abovesaid three grounds viz., demolition and reconstruction (under Sec.l4(l)(b) of the Act). The R.C.O.P. was dismissed on all the said three grounds. But, in the appeal filed by the respondent-landlord in R.C.A.No.22 of 1986, the said dismissal was set aside and eviction was granted on the ground of demolition and reconstruction. Hence the civil revision by the tenant.

.3. The learned counsel for the petitioner makes the following submissions. The landlord has not proved that the building was bona fide required by him for the immediate purpose of demolition and for erecting a new building on the site in question. He particular/ draws my attention to the decision in P.Orr and Sons (P.) Limited v. Associated Publishers (Madras) Ltd, (1991)1 S.C.C. 301 and submits that the