THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE T. MEENA KUMARI C.R.P.No. 5228 of 2009 ORAL ORDER: The Civil Revision Petition is filed against the orders of the learned Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad in I.A.No. 2919 of 2008 in O.S.No. 167 of 2008, dated 12.10.2009. Brief facts of the revision are that: Petitioner herein is the Managing Director of the Defendant No.1 and the respondent No.1 herein is the plaintiff and respondent Nos. 2 and 3 are the defendants No.2 and 3 before the learned trial Court. For the purpose of convenience, the parties as arrayed before the learned trial Court are referred to hereinafter in this order. Petitioner herein has filed I.A.No. 2919 of 2008 before the learned trial Court for the purpose of leave of the court to defend the suit. The learned trial Court after hearing both the sides, has allowed the permission to defend the suit on condition of his depositing a sum of Rs. 30,00,000/- being half of the suit amount within one month from the date of the order. Aggrieved by the said order, the Managing Director of the defendant No.1 who is the petitioner herein has preferred the present Civil Revision Petition. Heard both sides. It is the case of the petitioner that the said petition was allowed subject to depositing a sum of Rs. 30,00,000/- against the suit claim of Rs. 60,00,000/-. The learned counsel has argued that the said direction directing the petitioner to deposit a sum of Rs. 30 lakhs is higher side and they have denied the claim that the petitioner was not served with the copy of the legal notice and the said petition and he did not give any reply. Under the above circumstances, it would suffice if a direction is given to direct the petitioner to deposit a sum of Rs. 5 lakhs as against the order of the court below wherein he was directed to deposit a sum of Rs. 30 lakhs as the liability of the petitioner has to be decided in the suit by the trial Court. Accordingly, the Civil Revision petition is allowed and the Petitioner shall deposit a sum of Rs. 5 lakhs in the suit before the learned trial Court within a period of four weeks from today. However, the learned trial Court shall dispose of the suit within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. With the above modifications, the C.R.P. is allowed. _______________________ T. MEENA KUMARI, J 19.11.2009 CHV