IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.1413 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision 28.02.2011 Chanan Singh ...... Petitioner VERSUS Parkash Ram and others ...... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N.JINDAL Present: Mr.C.L.Verma, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** A.N.JINDAL, J: Aggrieved against the order dated 12.01.2011, passed by the Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Balachaur, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, closing the evidence of petitioner-defendant No.1 by order, he has preferred this petition. The suit in this case was filed on 26.11.2008 wherein the trial Court framed the issues on 23.12.2008. Plaintiff-respondent No.1 closed his evidence on 29.09.2010 and the case was adjourned for 13.10.2010 for evidence of defendant. Thereafter the case was adjourned to 27.10.2010, 10.11.2010, 17.11.2010, 07.12.2010, 20.12.2010 and 03.01.2011 and then on 12.01.2011, the evidence of defendant was closed by order. It appears that on the aforesaid dates, the Court never ordered the petitioner to furnish the list of witnesses or deposit the diet money for service of his witnesses. On the very first day, the Court had directed the petitioner to bring his evidence at his own responsibility. The procedure adopted by the Court appears to be unknown to civil law. However, at the same time, the petitioner also appears to be little bit negligent in leading the evidence but that negligence or delay could be compensated with costs. Resultantly, the present petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to conclude his evidence within three months from today, subject to payment of Rs.5,000/- as costs. The trial Court would facilitate to procure the service of witnesses on filing of list of witnesses as well as diet money for their service. (A.N.Jindal) Judge 28.02.2011 mamta-II