This Court ordered notice before admission on 1-7-2008 and granted interim stay for a limited period.

2. Sri Navin Kumar entered appearance on behalf of the respondent.

3. Sri K.Mahadev and Sri Navin Kumar, the Counsel representing respective parties made a request for the final disposal of the Civil Revision Petition.

4. Sri Mahadeva, the learned Counsel representing the petitioners would maintain that in the light of the facts and circumstances the husband of the respondent who is a crucial witness and who worked as Sub-Inspector of Police at Kurnool at the relevant point of time cannot be examined by the revision petitioners in view of the relationship between the said Sub-Inspector of Police with the respondent. However, in the light of the fact that certain crucial facts are to be established, it may be just and proper to examine him as Court witness and such a request had been made despite the fact that certain decisions had been relied upon distinguishing the same on the ground that the facts are totally different and dismissing the application as not maintainable cannot be sustained.

5. Per contra, Sri Navin Kumar, the learned Counsel representing the respondent laid