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"There is no dispute that after the death of the original tenant tenancy devolves upon the legal representatives as joint tenants and not as tenant-in-common and the eviction petition filed by the landlord against one or the other legal representative of the deceased tenant who is in occupation of the premises is a valid petition."

6 This submission raises no triable issue. The bonafide need of the landlord has been established. Merely because she is a lady aged 62 years and at this stage wishes to start her business; would not qualify her need as imaginative or moonshine; it would not deprive her of right to start a business to earn some kind of livelihood for herself along with the help of her two daughters. Even presuming that there has been no specific denial to the submission that both the daughters are married but the fact that the landlady has no son she obviously has to lean upon her married daughters for support; both for her business needs as also otherwise. Further submission that she has not disclosed the details of her business is also of a little consequence. In this context in Raj Kumar Khaitan & Ors. Vs. Bibi Zubaida Khatun and Anr. reported in AIR 1995 SC 576 the Apex Court had held as follows: