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29. The husband of the petitioner was an old tenant in respect of both the said premises and the said tenancy devolved upon the present petitioners after his death and the petitioners were accepted as tenants by the respondent LIC. It is not in dispute that the petitioners have been regularly paying the rent of the said tenanted premises under their occupation and the termination of the tenancy of the petitioners was not on account of any kind of default by the petitioners in the payment of the rent. The tenancy of the petitioners was terminated by the respondent on the ground of bona fide need of the respondent. The respondent has miserably failed to prove their bona fide need to seek eviction of the petitioner from the said tenanted premises. Following the judgment of the New India Assurance Company Ltd. (supra) the action of the respondent in seeking eviction of the petitioners does not meet the Constitutional mandate of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. The action of the respondent does not satisfy the requirements of the test of fairness, reasonableness, which are the basic postulates of Article 14 of the Constitution of India and rather the action of the respondent appears to be totally arbitrary and capricious.