( 1 ) HEARD Sri Chinnapa Reddy, the counsel representing the revision petitioner and Sri G. C. Shekar, the counsel representing the respondent.

( 2 ) ELABORATE submissions were made relating to the scope and ambit of Order 16, rule 14 of the Code of Civil Procedure (herein after referred to in short as "the Code" ). The revision petitioner had preferred the present Civil Revision Petition as against an order dated 17-3-2003 made in L. A. No. 338 of 2003 in O. S. No. 203 of 2000 on the file of the Principal Junior Civil Judge, sattenapalli. The said application was moved by the respondent herein-defendant in the suit, under Order 16, Rule 14 read with section 151 of the Code, to summon witnesses and examine them as Court witnesses in the suit and pass suitable orders. The learned Principal Junior Civil Judge, sattenapalli, after recording certain reasons ultimately allowed the application holding that no prejudice or loss would be caused to the respondent-plaintiff in the said application, the revision petitioner herein, if the witnesses are examined as Court witnesses. Aggrieved by the same, the present c. R. P. is preferred.

( 3 ) ORDER 16, Rule 14 of the Code re