JUDGMENT :

M.R. SHAH, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 23.04.2021 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras in Civil Revision Petition No.4427 of 2015 by which the High Court has dismissed the said revision application preferred by the appellants herein in which the appellants challenged the order passed by the learned Trial Court dismissing the petition to set aside the ex-parte decree, the appellants herein – original defendants have preferred the present appeal.

2. The appellant no.1 is the company who availed the loan facility from the respondent – Bank and appellant nos. 2 and 3 are the Directors who are staying along with their family in United States of America (USA) for last 40 years. The respondent Bank instituted suit being OS No.3749 of 2003 before the learned Trial Court for recovery of the amount. The summons of the suit and the notices were sent to the address at Chennai which remained closed as the appellants herein original defendants are staying in USA. The summons and the notices were returned ‘unclaimed’. Therefore, the Court below ordered substituted service by newspaper publication. Thereafter the suit proc