THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM CIVIL REVISION PETITION No. 2065 of 2010 Dated: 15-7-2010 Oral order: This revision under Article 227 of the Constitution is directed against the order of the learned Principal District Judge, Ongole dated 2-3-2010, allowing Tr.OP No. 2 of 2010. The respondents 1 to 3 herein (plaintiffs in O.S.No. 370 of 2009) applied for transfer of this suit from the file of the Additional Senior Civil Judge, Ongole to the Family Court, Ongole to be tried along with O.S.No. 52 of 2007 which is also a suit filed by respondents 1 to 3 herein against the revision petitioner and another. O.S.No. 370 of 2009 was seeking cancellation of an agreement of sale dated 5-1- 1993 allegedly contrived by the revision petitioner forging the signature of the 1st respondent (1st plaintiff’s) husband one Nagarjuna Reddy to convey his half share in Sri Satyadeva Stone Crushers in favour of the revision petitioner. O.S. No. 52 of 2007 is by respondents 1 to 3 seeking partition of the suit schedule property (the property involved in both the suits OS No. 52 of 2007 and OS No.379 of 2009 is the same). According to the averments in O.S.No. 370 of 2009, the revision petitioner and Nagarjuna Reddy (the husband of the 1st respondent, the 1st plaintiff in the suit), jointly purchased the property. Nagarjuna Reddy died in March, 2006. Thereafter, the revision petitioner forged the signature of Nagarjuna Reddy on an unregistered and possessory agreement of sale to convey Nagarjuna Reddy’s half share in Sri Satyadeva Stone Crusher (the suit schedule property) in his favour. Therefore O.S.No. 370 of 2009 is filed for cancellation of the suit agreement of sale. There were other proceedings initiated before revenue authorities under the provisions of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, which are stated to be pending (after decisions by the appropriate revenue, primary and revisional authorities), before this Court. O.S.No. 52 of 2007 is by respondents 1 to 3 herein for partition of the schedule property whereat the revision petitioner is the 1st defendant and Sri Satyadeva Stone Crusher the 3rd defendant. In the above factual content, the respondents 1 to 3 filed the application under Section 24 of the CPC for transfer of OS No. 370 of 2009 to be tried along with O.S.No. 52 of 2007 by the Family Court, Ongole. The Court below found that some of the parties in both the suits are common; the subject matter of both the suits is the same property; while OS No. 52 of 2007 was filed for partition, OS No. 370 of 2009 is for cancellation of an agreement of sale dated 5-1-1993; and that the contentions of the parties in both the suits are “almost similar”. For these reasons, the court below, exercised its power, jurisdiction and discretion under Section 24 of the CPC, allowed Tr.OP No. 2 of 2010 withdrawing O.S.No. 370 of 2009 from the file of Addl. Senior Civil Judge, Ongole and transferred the same to the file of Family Court Ongole to be tried along with O.S.No.52 of 2007 pending thereat. Though the issues for consideration in O.S.No. 52 of 2007 and O.S.No. 370 of 2009 may not be identical to the issues arising in both the suits are inter linked and pertain to the same property. The principal defendant in both the suits is the revision petitioner. It is therefore, not only convenient but also expedient if both the suits are tried together so that public and court’s time is conserved. For the aforesaid reasons, this Court discerns no substantial error in the application of law or in the exercise of discretion by the court below, warranting revisional interference. The revision is without merit and is accordingly dismissed, after hearing Smt A.Chayadevi, learned counsel for the revision petitioner and Sri M.Sudhakar Reddy, learned counsel for respondents 1 to 3. There shall be no order as to costs. The Family Court, Ongole is requested to expeditiously dispose of both the suits, preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. _________________________ GODA RAGHURAM, J 15th July, 2010. GRR