Judgment

Thomas, J.-Leave granted.

2. A landlady had rented out her flat situate at Bandra (West) in Bombay (now Mumbai) to a tenant in 1969 for a rent of Rs. 200/- per month. As years passed by, she found it difficult to accommodate her large family in the small residential apartment where she is presently living. So, she moved the Court in 1977 for a decree of eviction of her tenant from her flat at Bandra. Of course, she cast the net very wide covering a variety of grounds to have a decree for eviction, but what ultimately survived among them was the ground envisaged in Section 13(1)(g) of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 (for short ‘the Act’), i.e., bona fide and reasona­ble requirement of the tenanted premises for her own occupation. Though, she was non-suited by the trial Court (which is the Small Causes Court, Bombay), she went in appeal to the appellate bench of the Court of Small Causes, where she got a decree for eviction on the ground mentioned above. But the said decree did not enure to her benefit as the same was later upset by the High Court of Bombay when the tenant filed a writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution for quashme