JUDGMENT:

This appeal is by the appellants/tenants against the concurrent decree of eviction passed against them by the Courts below i.e. O.S.No.137 of 1999 dated 25.09.2006 on the file of IX Additional Senior Civil Judge (Fast Track Court), City Civil Court, Hyderabad, as confirmed in A.S.No.579 of 2006 dated 13.03.2009 on the XIII Additional Chief Judge (Fast Track Court), City Civil Court, Hyderabad.

2. For the sake of convenience, the appellants are referred to as tenants and the respondents are referred to as landlords.

3. The tenants entered into a lease agreement dated 01.02.1981 with the landlords for carrying on business in the name and style of M/s. Eskay’s Time Shop for a period of 11 months on monthly rent of Rs.1,300/- and the said lease was renewed from time to time and by the end of January 1991 the rent payable was Rs.1,500/-. It is alleged in the plaint filed by the landlords that after the death of the original landlord, his sons – present plaintiffs, who succeeded the original landlord, sought possession of the suit schedule premises for their personal use but as the tenants have not agreed to the request of the landlords, the landlords terminated the tenancy of the