HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.959 of 2008 ORDER: This Civil Revision Petition is filed against the order passed by the Principal Junior Civil Judge, Kothagudem in I.A.No. 3093 of 2007 in O.S.No. 926 of 2004 dated 04.02.2008. The petitioner herein is the defendant in the Suit. The respondent-plaintiff filed the Suit for recovery of money based on a promissory note. The petitioner-defendant disputed the signature on the promissory note contending that it was not his. He filed the present I.A. to have the promissory note sent for verification by a handwriting expert. The Court below, in its order dated 04.02.2008, noted that the evidence of the defendant had already been closed after three adjournments; the report of the expert was not conclusive proof; the Court had to arrive at a conclusion based on other evidence available on record; and, considering the stage of the Suit, it was neither desirable nor proper to have the matter referred to an expert for comparison of the signature, more so when the petition was filed at the fag end of the Suit proceedings. Sri A.Ramalingeswara Rao, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, would submit that, since the very basis of the Suit is the promissory note which, the petitioner-defendant had contended, did not bear his signature, the Court below ought to have referred the document for verification by a handwriting expert. Referring a suit document for verification by an expert is not as a matter of course. It is for the Trial Court to decide whether or not it is necessary to do so. If the Court is satisfied that it can come to a conclusion on the basis of the evidence on record, it need not exercise its discretion to have the document referred for expert opinion. The discretion exercised by the Court below does not suffer from a patent illegality necessitating interference in proceedings under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. The Civil Revision Petition fails and is, accordingly, dismissed. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Dt:01-07-2010 usd