CR No. 8152 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CR No. 8152 of 2010 Date of decision:- 23.12.2010 M/s Jethu Ram Rice Mills ......petitioner vs. The Punjb State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. ......respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA Present: - Mr. Parminder P. Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner HEMANT GUPTA, J (ORAL) Present revision petition is aggrieved against an order passed by learned trial Court on 18.10.2010 whereby an application filed by the plaintiff-petitioner for amendment of the plaint was declined. Initially, the plaintiff filed a suit for recovery of the damages amounting to Rs. 75,00,000/-. Learned trial Court passed an order that the plaintiff has to affix ad valorem Court fee. Petitioner also filed an application for amendment of the plaint so as to delete the specific amount of damages but to plead that the amount of damages shall be determined during trial of the case. It is the said application which has also been declined by the learned trial Court vide the order impugned in the revision petition. Claim of the plaintiff is for damages. The said damages has to be of an ascertainable amount. The plaintiff cannot be allowed to carry out the amendment which is uncertain and vague. Therefore, I do not find any CR No. 8152 of 2010 -2- ground to interfere with the order passed by learned trial Court on 18.10.2010, declining the amendment. Dismissed. (HEMANT GUPTA) JUDGE 23.12.2010 preeti