IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA WRIT PETITION NO. 200 OF 2010 MRS. MAGDALENE MONTEIRO REPRESENTED THROUGH HER POWER OF ATTORNEY SHRI JOSE ANTONIO LUIS MONTEIRO ... Petitioner Versus SUDHIR P. DESAI AND ORS., ... Respondents Mr. Sudin M.S.Usgaonkar, Advocate for the Petitioner. Coram:- N. A. BRITTO, J. Date:- 17th March, 2010 P.C: Heard. 2. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 22/01/2010 of the Learned Joint Mamlatdar. 3. The Petitioner herein is the respondent in the said proceedings before the Mamlatdar. The applicants were being examined through their Attorney, Shri Mukund Deshpande who had filed his Affidavit- in -Evidence on 18/01/2008 and cross examination proceeded on 01/07/2008, as well. On 18/06/2009, the applicants decided to drop their attorney also as their witness and chose to examine themselves in support of their case. 4. That application of the applicants has been allowed by the Learned Joint Mamlatdar by the said order dated 22/01/2010. 5. The case of the applicants was that after the said Attorney was proceeding with the cross-examination, the relations between the said Attorney were strained and they had withdrawn the the said power of Attorney given to him. 6. The applicants were certainly entitled to any time withdraw the power of attorney given to the said Mukund Deshpande and examine themselves in support of their case and dropping the attorney in the circumstances of the case could not be. 7. No provision of the Evidence Act has been pointed out by the Learned Counsel prohibiting such a course of action on behalf of the applicants. 8. Not a case for interference in exercise of supervisory jurisdiction. 9. Writ petition disposed of accordingly. N. A. BRITTO, J. ap/-