THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.6265 OF 2010 DATED 29th MARCH, 2011. BETWEEN : D.Siva Sambi Reddy .. Petitioner and The State of A.P. & another ..Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.6265 OF 2010 ORDER: Petitioner approaches this Court with a prayer to set aside the order dated 31.03.2010 passed in Crl.M.P.No.353 of 2010 in an un- numbered Civil Revision Petition by the learned District and Sessions Judge, Guntur, whereby he dismissed the application filed by the petitioner seeking to condone the delay of 171 days in preferring the revision. Heard. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that if the petitioner herein is given an opportunity to examine himself before the concerned Court, he can prove his case. The learned Sessions Judge dismissed the revision on the ground that there is inordinate delay in preferring the revision. This Court perused the entire material on record and also the order passed by the learned Sessions Judge. This Court is of the view that instead of recalling the order passed by the learned Sessions Judge, the matter can be remanded back to the trial Court and the petitioner herein can be given an opportunity to examine himself as a witness to prove his case. Accordingly, M.C.No.20 of 2008 is directed to be restored to the file of the trial Court and the petitioner herein is directed to approach the trial Court and examine himself as a witness, upon which the learned trial Judge shall dispose of M.C.No.20 of 2008 after examination of the petitioner herein as a witness. With above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions filed in this Criminal Petition, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 29.03.2011 sur