the payment of monthly rent from February 2018, the plaintiff had filed R.C.O.P. No. 1447 of 2018 before the XI Small Causes Court, Chennai seeking eviction under the primary ground of wilful default in the payment of rent. Pending the petition, the plaintiff had also filed an application under section 11 (4) of the Tamil Nadu Buildings and Lease Rent Control Act, 1960 [for short 'the Act'] seeking payment of the arrears of rent. The certified copy of the original petition in R.C.O.P. No. 1447 of 2018 was marked as Ex-P5 and the certified copy of the petition in M.P. No. 96 of 2019, which was the petition filed under section 11 (4) of the Act, was marked as Ex-P7 and an order was passed on 17.09.2019 directing the defendant herein to pay the admitted arrears and that order was marked as Ex-P8. Since the defendant did not comply with the said direction R.C.O.P. No. 1447 of 2018 was decreed on 18.10.2019 and eviction was directed and the said judgment and decree was marked as Ex-P9. The defendant filed an appeal in R.C.A. No. 48 of 2020 before the VII Small Causes Court, Chennai. The order of the rent controller was confirmed by order dated 24.11.2020 which was marked as Ex-P11. The plaintiff herein then filed E.P. No. 29 of 2020 and had taken possession of
