IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.4648 of 2009 Between: Thota Ranga Ranjani. … Petitioner And Thota Nagendra Suresh … Respondents This Court made the following: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No. 4648 OF 2009 ORDER:- Petitioner, wife of the respondent, filed this revision challenging the order of the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Rajahmundry dated 18.12.2008 in allowing I.A.No.938 of 2008 in O.P.No.41 of 2002, filed under Section 26 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, modifying the award passed by the lok adalat dated 13.03.2002, holding that the respondent/husband is entitled to keep the custody of his children for a period of two weeks during Sankranthi Vacation when he comes down to India, as against one week. The only contention urged by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the award of the Lok Adalat cannot be modified by the civil court in view of the bar contained, since the same would be final under Section 21 of the Legal Services Authority Act, 1987. This court sees sufficient polls in the contentions of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the award passed by the Lok Adalat has become final and the same cannot be modified as it is passed with the consent of the parties and no appeal lies against the said orders as held by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in P.T.Thomas v. Thomas Job[1] and also by the judgment of this Court in Nimma Venkateswarlu v. Devireddy Krishnayya @ Venkata Krishnayya[2] and Thomas Job v. P.T.Thomas[3]. In view of the same, the impugned order passed by the trial court modifying the award cannot be sustainable and the same is accordingly set aside, remitting the I.A. to the trial court for referring the same to the lok adalat and pass a fresh award. Accordingly, the civil revision petition is allowed. No order as to costs. __________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J 22nd January 2010 lmv [1] 2005(6) SCC 478 [2] AIR 2007 AP 300 [3] AIR 2004 Kerala 47