-1- Civil Revision No.1050 of 2011 (O&M). IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ... Date of Decision: February 15, 2011. Civil Revision No.1050 of 2011 (O&M). Ram Piari and others ... Petitioners VERSUS Kashmiro Devi and others ... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHINDER PAL. 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 ? Present: Mr. Rajeev Dev Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- MOHINDER PAL, J. Defendants-petitioners, who have been been deprived by the trial Court of their right to cross-examine two witnesses of the plaintiff-respondent, namely, P.W Kashmiro Devi (plaintiff) and P.W. Kaniya Ram on account of the negligence of their counsel before the trial Court, have approached this Court by way of filing this revision petition for setting aside the order of the trial Court -2- Civil Revision No.1050 of 2011 (O&M). whereby the cross-examination of the aforesaid witnesses of the plaintiff-respondent was marked as `Nil' after affording an opportunity in this regard and allowing them the relief prayed for. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioners and keeping in view the interests of justice, instead of issuing notice of this petition to the opposite side, I deem it expedient to dispose this petition of by ordering the trial Court to allow the petitioners-defendants to cross-examine the aforesaid two witnesses of the the plaintiff by allowing them one opportunity for the purpose subject to their counsel depositing costs of Rs.5,000/- before it (trial Court). Ordered accordingly. These costs are burdened on the counsel for the defendants- petitioners before the trial Court because it was on account of his negligence that two witnesses of the plaintiff-respondent were not cross-examined. In case the costs are paid, the same shall be paid to the plaintiffs-respondent. Resultantly, the impugned order is set aside to the extent it records the cross-examination of the aforesaid witnesses of the plaintiff-respondent as `Nil' and this petition is allowed to the extent indicated above. ( MOHINDER PAL ) February 15, 2011. JUDGE ak