IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA WRIT PETITION NO. 820 OF 2009 SHRI EDWARD JOSE SALVADOR AREZ AND ANR., ... Petitioners Versus SHRI MANUEL FRANCISCO GUSTAVO AREZ ... Respondent Mr. J. P. D'souza, Advocate for the Petitioners. Coram:- R. M. SAVANT, J. Date:- 9th December, 2009 P.C. Heard Shri D'Souza, the learned Counsel for the Petitioners. This Petition takes exception to the Order dated 27.11.2009 passed by the learned District Judge-2, Panaji Goa, by which order the application for amendment of the written statement filed by the Petitioners came to be rejected. 2. By the said application filed by the Petitioners, the Petitioners who are the Defendant Nos.1 and 2 in the suit have sought for deletion of the Defendant Nos. 3 and 4 who are the State and the Village Panchayat from the array of Defendants. The said relief has been sought on the ground that once they are deleted the suit would lie in the Court of Civil Judge Junior Division, where some other suit between the parties is pending. The law is well settled that the Plaintiffs are dominus litus of the proceedings and it is not for the Defendants to determine as to who should be arrayed as Defendants to the suit. The Trial Court has rejected the said application on two grounds. Firstly on the ground that in the earlier application no such amendment was sought and secondly the objection, if any, can only be of the Defendant Nos. 3 and 4 and not the Petitioners. 3. The learned Counsel for the Petitioners has relied upon a judgment of the Apex Court dated 18.4.2007 in Civil Appeal No. 2019/2007 in the matter of Usha Balashaheb Swami & others V/s Kiran Appaso Swami & others, considering the facts of the present case wherein the Defendant Nos. 1 and 2 are seeking deletion of the Defendant Nos. 3 and 4 from the array of Defendants, the said judgment has no application. 4. Having perused the impugned order, I do not find any illegality or infirmity in the impugned order for this Court to interdict in the Writ jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. Petition is accordingly dismissed. R. M. SAVANT, J. at*