IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.2608 of 2009 (O&M) Date of Decision : 10.11.2009 Ramesh Chander ....Petitioner Versus Mangat Ram .....Respondent. CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SABINA. Present: Mr. Ashish Yadav, Advocate for Mr.Pankaj Mehta, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SABINA,J.(Oral) Petitioner-plaintiff filed a suit for declaration that he was owner in possession of the house in dispute. Notice of the suit was issued to the defendant-respondent. After framing of issues, parties led their evidence. When the case was fixed for rebuttal evidence of the petitioner-plaintiff, an application was moved by the petitioner-plaintiff for permission to lead additional evidence. Vide the impugned order dated 18.04.2009, the said application was dismissed. Hence, the present revision petition. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner, I am of the opinion that the instant petition is devoid of any merit and deserves dismissal. By way of additional evidence, petitioner-plaintiff wants to get the signatures of the defendant-respondent examined on documents Ex.P-2 to Ex.P-4. However the defendant-respondent, at the time of filing of the written statement, had denied his signatures on the said documents. A perusal of the impugned order dated 18.04.2009 reveals that the application for permission to lead additional evidence had been moved by Civil Revision No.2608 of 2009 (O&M) ..2.. the petitioner-plaintiff on 26.03.2008 after availing four adjournments for rebuttal evidence. In these circumstances, the learned trial court rightly held that at this stage, the application for permission to lead additional evidence was liable to be dismissed as the petitioner-plaintiff was expected to act with due diligence while leading evidence in the affirmative. Hence, the impugned order does not suffer from any material irregularity or illegality which would warrant interference by this court in revision. Accordingly, this petition is dismissed. 10.11.2009 (SABINA) Seema-II Judge