IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CMPMO No.550 of 2009 Decided on: June 18, 2010 Sita Lal …Petitioner Versus State of H.P. …Respondent Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surjit Singh, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioner : Mr. B.S. Chauhan, Advocate. For the Respondent : Mr. Ramesh Thakur, Assistant Advocate General. Surjit Singh, J. (oral) Heard and gone through the record. 2. Petitioner has filed a suit before Assistant Collector, 1st Grade, under Section 163 of the Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, seeking a declaration that he has become owner by adverse possession of certain property, recorded in the ownership of the State. He filed an application to amend the plaint so as to state therein that earlier one private person by the name of Ram Saran was recorded as owner in possession in revenue papers and on the basis of that wrong entry said Ram Ram Saran tried to dispossess the petitioner-plaintiff from the suit land and to defend his possession, plaintiff filed a suit for injunction, which was decreed in his favour. Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? …2… 3. Amendment sought by the plaintiff is a matter of evidence and not pleadings. Petitioner-plaintiff can lead evidence about this fact, even without amending pleadings, because he has already raised plea of adverse possession in his plaint. Since what is intended to be stated by the petitioner in the plaint by way of amendment is a matter of evidence and not pleadings, as stated above, present petition is dismissed In view of dismissal of main petition, CMP No. 739/2009 also stands dismissed and interim order dated 16th September, 2009 is vacated. June 18, 2010(ss) ( Surjit Singh ), J.