A. SAMBASIVA RAO, J.

( 1 ) A point of some import is raised in this revision petition. It relates to applications for leave to file suit in forma pauperis. The question is whether a duty is cast on an applicant for such leave to disclose all the properties belonging to him in his application and if he does not, whether such non-disclosure would entail dismissal of his application.

( 2 ) THE material facts are :the petitioner filed a suit for eviction of the respondents from certain properties and for delivering the same to him. He filed an application to file the suit in forma pauperis and in the B Schedule appended to the petition he had shown half joint share in a thatched house worth about Rs. 500. 00 and few items of apparel. The Court-fee payable is Rs. 1,546. 00. The respondents opposed this application saying that he had means to pay the Court-fee and the he had not disclosed in the petition all his assets. In fact in the cross-examination of the petitioner, examined as P. W. 1, it was brought out that he owns some site, and a cattle shed, that house tax was being paid in his name for that property, that there was a granary, and that he got life interest in the site, cattle s

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