G. K. MISRA, C. J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner is the landlord and the Opposite Party No. 1 is the tenant. The petitioner's case as mentioned in the application for eviction may be stated in short. The disputed house consists of a room abutting the main road. Just adjacent to it there are two other rooms. The three rooms are in the front of the main business premises of the petitioner. These three rooms located side by side had been rented out by the petitioner long back at a time when they were not considered necessary for business purposes. The petitioner originally constituted a partnership firm. Recently it has been reconstituted by separate allocation of business. Haji Ahmed Ibrahim, one of the partners, got the business of the firm at berhampur to his share. The volume and turnover of the business considerably increased in recent years with consequential expansion of the staff and the records. The petitioner has agencies of several standard commodities and articles, one of them being the agency of cloths of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills. The said Mills insisted upon having a show-room where different varieties of stocks are to be exhibited for publicity. In the absence of a show-ro