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These Civil Revision Petitions (CRPs) can be disposed of by a common order as the core question that falls for consideration is same. These CRPs are filed under Section 25 of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (the Provincial Court, for brevity). CRP Nos.3766 of 2004 and 4572 of 2006 are filed by the plaintiffs and CRP Nos.4325 and 6065 of 2004 are filed by the defendants, who suffered decrees passed by the Courts concerned exercising small cause jurisdiction. The parties are referred to by their status in the lower Courts.

2. Treating CRP No.4325 of 2004 as an illustrative one, the brief fact of the matter may be noticed. The plaintiff filed suit, being S.C.No.91 of 1994, for recovery of a sum of Rs.5,508/- towards arrears of maktha (rent for agricultural land) for the years 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 and also tax for second crop. He alleged that he let out land admeasuring Ac.0.96 cents in survey No.253/1 situated at Vendra Village of Pedapudi Mandal in East Godavari District to Narla Chandra Rao (the sole defendant) on yearly maktha of 25 bags, that for the year 1992-1993 the tenant paid 19 bags of paddy but failed to pay six bags of paddy for that ye

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