IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.2628 of 2009 Date of decision:08.05.2009 Harbhajan Kaur ...Petitioner versus Gurpal Kaur alias Harpal Kaur ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN Present: Mr. Vikas Kumar Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. ----- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? K.Kannan, J.(Oral) 1. The plaintiff seeks in revision one last opportunity for examining himself and other witnesses in a case where the Court below has passed the order closing the plaintiff's side. The learned Judge while closing the evidence has observed that the issues have been framed in 2005 and the plaintiff was deliberately taking time. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has placed the details of the zimini orders along with grounds of revision which reveal that the case had been pending for a long time awaiting consideration of the petition for attachment and the trial has commenced with examination-in-chief of PW 1 and 2 and on 24.01.2009, PW 2 has been cross-examined and on the next two occasions when the case was adjourned, the plaintiff has not appeared. The case is for recovery for a Civil Revision No.2628 of 2009 - 2 - sum over Rs.2 lakhs on the basis of an alleged liability arising under a loan transaction and the closure of evidence without permitting the plaintiff to adduce the needful evidence would cause great hardship. 3. In the interest of justice, it is deemed necessary that the Court reopens the plaintiff's side and gives the opportunity to the plaintiff to produce all witnesses on his own risk on the date to which the case now stands posted and after the conclusion of the cross-examination of witnesses, the defendant shall have an opportunity to adduce her evidence. 4. The impugned order is set aside even at the stage of admission without serving a notice on the other side, due consideration being had for ensuring speedy trial. The Civil Revision is allowed in the above terms. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 08.05.2009 sanjeev