O R D E R

P.B.Suresh Kumar, J.

These revision petitions under Section 20 of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1965 (the Act) are preferred challenging the common judgment rendered by the Rent Control Appellate Authority, Thalassery in a batch of appeals affirming the order of the Rent Control Court, Kannur, dismissing nine applications for eviction instituted under Section 11 (3) of the Act. The common landlord in the proceedings is the petitioner in the revision petitions. 2. The landlord (the Society) is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The premises involved in the applications are rooms of a building let out separately to the tenants involved in the proceedings. The case set out by the Society in the applications is that the landlord is an association formed for the prevention of cruelty to animals in Kannur District; that there is no animal shed-cum- inpatient clinic (animal shelter) in Kannur and that they, therefore, propose to start an animal shelter in the premises let out to the tenants. The tenants resisted the applications. The contentions taken by the tenants were mainly that the Society does not have the locus standi to