HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY C.R.P.No.1840 OF 2010 ORDER: This civil revision petition is directed against the order dated 04.03.2010 in I.A.No.574 of 2009 in O.S.No.36 of 2003, on the file of the Senior Civil Judge, Yelamanchili, wherein the said application filed by the petitioner herein, the plaintiff, under Order XVI Rule 1(2) CPC to issue summons to Sri M.Madhusudhana Rao, Deputy Tahasildar, Civil Supplies, DSO Rural, Collectorate, Visakhapatnam, to prove that he did not record the statement of Rajana Appalanaidu, was dismissed. 2. Heard both sides. Perused the record. 3. The petitioner herein filed the suit for partition and the same is contested by the respondents/defendants. As seen from the impugned order, on conclusion of the trial, the matter has reached the stage of arguments five years prior to the date of the impugned order and ever since there has been no progress in the matter on account of number of interlocutory applications being filed. From the impugned order, it is manifest that the parties are trying to protract the litigation and delay the disposal of the suit by filing some application or the other and the present application is also one such. The impugned order, which is passed on due application of mind and properly exercising the discretionary power, dismissing the application for summoning the Deputy Tahasildar at the stage when the matter has been pending for the last five years for hearing the arguments, does not call for any interference, as the application is obviously intended only to protract the litigation and delay the disposal of the suit. Having regard to the fact that the suit is filed in the year 2003 and the matter has reached the stage of arguments even seven years earlier, the learned Senior Civil Judge is directed to dispose of the suit at an early date, preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and both parties shall cooperate in that regard. 4. In the result, the civil revision petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J 16th September, 2011 Lrkm