( 1 ) THIS is landlords petition arising from proceedings for release" and allotment of residential accommodation under Section 16 of the U. P. Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and eviction) Act No. 13 of 1972, hereinafter referred to as the Act. The Additional District magistrate, Rent Control, Lucknow rejected the landladys application for release and allotted the premises in dispute to Phool Chand, opposite party No. 1. His order has been confirmed by the learned District Judge. The landlady Smt. Leela Devi therefore preferred writ petition in this court. During the pendency of the writ petition she sold the building to Mohan Singh Bedi who applied for substitution and was brought on record in place of the original petitioner vide Courts order, dated 4-8-1980.

( 2 ) FOR the purpose of deciding this petition it is not necessary to state in detail the case set up by the respective parties before the authorities below. Suffice it to say that the case of Leela Devi was that she bona fide required the premises in dispute for occupation by herself and by members of her family as the rented accommodation in her occupation was insufficient for her requiremen