K.Kannan, J.

1. The tenant is the revision petitioner. The landlords petition for ejectment of the property which was a shop was on the ground of personal requirement. The petition was dismissed by the Rent Controller on a twin consideration of appreciation of evidence that the landlord had no previous experience in electronic business and the other line of reasoning was that the same landlord had earlier filed a petition for eviction in respect of the same premises but he had not set out his personal requirement as one of the grounds. The Rent Controller observed that if such a necessity had existed even in the year 1994, he would have definitely set that also as a ground. The fact that he did not take that as a ground earlier and was taking it up for the first time in the year 1997, when the petition was filed, he was evidently trying to somehow to wrest possession from the tenant under some ground or the other.

2. The landlord as an aggrieved party went on appeal and the appellate authority allowed the appeal, who on a re-appreciation of evidence on facts found that the landlord had sufficient resources to start the business. He adverted to the provisions of law and the