IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.4762 of 2009 (O&M) Date of Decision : 24.08.2009 Prem Singh .....Petitioner versus Sadhu Singh .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.K.S.Rekhi, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) This revision petition is directed by the defendant-judgment debtor whose first appeal has been dismissed by the learned District Judge, Fatehgarh Sahib vide order dated 25.5.2009, being barred by limitation. The respondent-plaintiff filed a suit for recovery of Rs.1,72,000/- against the petitioner-defendant which was decreed by the Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Fatehgarh Sahib, vide judgment and decree dated 16.10.2006. The petitioner-defendant filed an appeal against the said judgment and decree after a delay of 2 years 1 month and 13 days and moved an application under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for C.R. No.4762 of 2009 (O&M) -2- condonation of that delay. The plea took forth by the petitioner was that he is a poor and illiterate person and did not come to know about the decretal of the suit till the Patwari informed him that there were orders of attachment of his land. The learned District Judge has turned down the aforesaid plea of the petitioner and rightly so after observing that the petitioner, who has signed the pleadings in English and is well conversant with that language, can not claim himself to be an illiterate person. The plea taken by the petitioner, on the face of it, is totally false, vague and baseless. No interference in the impugned order is called for by this Court in exercise of its revisional jurisdiction. Dismissed. 24-08-2009 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE