IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4942 of 2010 GOVIND RAO S/O LATE SURYA NARAYAN RAO, DOING THE BUSINESS AS PROPRIETOR OF M/S SADANAND TRADING COMPANY AT EXHIBITION ROAD, NEAR LAV-KUSH APARTMENT, P.S. GANDHI MAIDAN, DISTT.- PATNA AND RESIDING AT S.K.PURI IN P.R.D.A. FLAT NO. 103, P.S. S.K.PURI, DISTT.- PATNA…………………………..PETITIONER VERSUS 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH THE CHIEF SECRETARY, DEPTT. OF LAW, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA 2. ARTI KUMARI W/O SRI NIRAD KUMAR SINHA AND D/O LATE PANCHAN SHAKHARDHARI SINGH, R/O KANKARBAGH, E/136, P.C.COLONY, P.S. KANKARBAGH, DISTT.- PATNA …………RESPONDENTS ----------- 03/ 24.08.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State (respondent no.1) as well as learned counsel for the private respondent. This writ petition is directed against order dated 14.12.2009 by which Subordinate Judge-VI, Patna rejected the petition for amendment of written statement filed by the defendant-petitioner in Eviction Suit No.35 of 2000. The aforesaid suit was filed by the private respondent for eviction of the petitioner on the ground of bonafide personal necessity as well as default in payment of rent by the defendant-petitioner. In the aforesaid case pleadings were complete, issues were framed, whereafter evidence of the plaintiff was concluded and only when the evidence of defendant was going on defendant filed a petition for amendment of the written statement on 19.08.2009. The said petition has been rejected by the court below considering the amended provision of Order - 2 - VI Rule 17 of the Code of Civil Procedure and also finding that the said step is merely to delay the disposal of the aforesaid eviction suit, which should have been decided much earlier. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this court does not find any merit in this writ petition, which is accordingly, dismissed. Harish (S.N. Hussain, J.)