The two revisions pose the same questions of law for consideration and the facts of each case are more or less identical except with reference to one matter. The petitioners in each case are cultivating tenants against whom orders of eviction have been passed by the Authorised Officer consequent on their failing to deposit the arrears of rent as ordered to be paid by them within the prescribed time. C.R.P.No. 2113 of 1979 arises out of C.T.P.No. 44of 1978 on the file of the Authorised Officer, Erode while C.R.P. No. 2142 of 1979 arises out of C.T.P.No.43of 1978 on the file of the same officer.

2. The respondent in C.R.P.No.2113 of 1979, who is the landlord of the revision petitioners, filed a petition for eviction against the petitioners under section 3(4)(a) of the Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants’ Protection Act (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’) on the ground that they had committed wilful default in the payment of rent for the years 1976-77 and 1977-78. The petitioners filed counter on 21st November, 1978, On 19th June, 1979, both parties made a joint endorsement and the petitioners agreed to deposit a sum of Rs. 9,000/- in full satisfaction of the rent for the two year