IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.1310 of 2009 Date of decision:09.03.2009 Manohar Lal ...Petitioner versus Usha Rani and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN Present: Mr. Amardeep Singh Gill, 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 ? K.Kannan, J.(Oral) 1. The revision is against an order directing defence to be struck off and proceed with the case of the plaintiff. 2. The case has been instituted on 29.11.2003 and for wellnigh five years, the defendants have not filed the written statement. The Court had directed time to file the statement on 09.09.2008 and even on the next date, when the statement had not been filed, the Court passed the impugned order. 3. I find that there is no justification and the order passed by the Court below was justified. However, the counsel for the petitioner pleads that the statement is ready, but still it could not be filed as signatures could not be obtained from the parties. Though I am not convinced about the reasoning given by the counsel. I believe that in the interest of justice one last opportunity could be granted if the defendant pays cost of Rs.15,000/- to the plaintiffs on or before 31.03.2009 and also file a written statement before the said date. Civil Revision No.1310 of 2009 - 2 - 4. The order of the Court below is set aside on condition that the petitioner shall pay the cost of Rs.15,000/- to the respondents and also file the written statement before the date. If either one of the above two is not complied with, the order of the Court below shall be confirmed and the revision shall stand dismissed. 5. The Civil Revision is disposed of in the above terms. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 09.03.2009 sanjeev