IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA C.R. No.1950 of 2008 FAUZDAR KUMHAR @ FAUZDAR KOHAR & ORS Versus ARTI DEVI ----------- 2 27/11/2008 Heard counsel for the petitioners. In the opinion of this Court the impugned order refusing prayer of the defendants-petitioners for reopening the evidence, has been rightly rejected. The issue with regard to the alleged death certificate was already closed and concluded by the plaintiff by leading evidence. Thereafter the defendants had also an opportunity to bring any evidence by way of their rebuttal. That however having been not done, the defendants after completing their evidence could not have been given liberty to reopen their evidence at the stage of argument only because they came in possession of some fresh certificate from the Gram Panchayat. The approach of the court below in rejecting such belated prayer infact does not suffer from any jurisdictional error. 2 Accordingly, this application being wholly misconceived is hereby dismissed. (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.) Abhay Kumar