( 1 ) THIS Civil Revision Petition is directed against the order, dated 5-11 -2002, passed by the Principal Senior Civil Judge at kurnool, dismissing the application in e. A. No. 373 of 2002 in E. P. No. 460 of 1997 in o. P. No. 132 of 1991, filed under Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure to condone the delay of 450 of days in filing an application for restoration of the said E. P.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is the decree-holder and the respondent is the judgment-debtor.

( 3 ) FOR the sake of convenience, the petitioner and the respondent will be referred to as "the decree-holder and judgment- debtor" respectively.

( 4 ) THE factual background in short is that in Land Acquisition Proceedings, some amount along with additional market value had been awarded by the Civil Court towards compensation in O. P. No. 132 of 1991. In order to recover the said amount, the present E. P. , had been filed by the decree-holder after a lapse of more than eleven years, but within the period of limitation. The actual amount of compensation had been received by the decree-holder and the said E. P. , had been filed only to recover the additional market value. The court below directed