The Chief Justice.-This application relates to the petitioner’s occupation of house No.7, Ramakrishna Street, G.T., Madras, as a tenant under the respondent. He originally entered on the premises on or about 1st November, 1944 and it is common ground that the premises were let to him for manufacturing peppermints. On 16th January, 1950, the landlady issued a notice to the petitioner through her advocate calling upon him to vacate and deliver vacant possession of the house on the ground that he had committed acts of waste. The acts mentioned in that notice were that he had demolished the wall of the inside room in the front yard and removed the threshold and doorway and converted the room into one big hall and that he had removed the rafters and inserted in their places bamboo sticks. The reply to this notice contained several matters not strictly pertaining to the disposal of the application before us, but it was alleged therein that the notice was not issued bona fide as it was full of falsehoods, but it was issued maliciously with a view to extort money and blackmail him. As regards the charge about removal of the rafters, the tenant stated that it was at the instance of the land

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