where the applicant is a person other than the owner of the premises in question, he shall, along with the application produce the written consent of the owner of the premises and the period of license shall not exceed the period, if any, specified in the consent. However, such a provision is not available in the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994. The relationship between a landlord and a tenant is guided by the Act, 1965. Therefore, once a tenant is put in possession of a building, he is entitled to enjoy the benefits conferred thereunder; and the landlord can only proceed against the tenant by resorting to the provisions of the Act, 1965. Here is a case where the landlord has filed a Rent Control Petition before the Rent Control Court, Kanjirappally and therefore, under no circumstances, it can be legally presumed that the landlord will provide consent to the tenant to renew the trade license, which if done would be detrimental and ruinous to the litigation instituted by him. But fact remains, at the same time, if the Secretary of the Grama Panchayat is insisting for the consent from the landlord for renewal of trade license, it would totally interfere with the rights of the tenant protected under the Act 1965, to continue in the building and carry on the trade in his status either as a contractual tenant, or a statutory tenant under the Act 1965. In
