Gulab C. Gupta, J.-- 1. The applicant was admittedly a Government servant having retired from the said service on 31st May, 1985. He purchased the suit-shop by a registered sale-deed dated 27.6.1985 and started proceedings under section 23-A of M.P. Accommodation Control Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) before the Rent Controlling Authority, Guna for obtaining vacant possession thereof. The non-applicant/tenant took an objection that since the applicant had become the landlord in relation to the tenanted premises after his retirement, he does not fall in any of the categories of 'landlord' specified in section-23-J of the Act and, therefore, proceedings initiated by him were ab initio void. It was particularly submitted that a retired Government Servant, in order to be treated as a landlord within the meaning of section 23-J (i) of the Act, must be the landlord on the date of his retirement. The learned Rent Controlling Authority dismissed the objection necessitating the present revision under section 23-E of the Act. The learned Single Judge (Hon. S.K Dubey, J.), who heard the revision finally, was faced with a factual situation, wherein Hon. K.L. Shrivastava, J