1. These two civil revision petitions have been filed against common order dated 17-10-2017. C.R.P.No. 7152 of 2017 is filed qua I.A.No. 1226 of 2017 filed for re-opening the petitioners' evidence. C.R.P.No. 7156 of 2017 is filed qua I.A.No. 1227 of 2017 filed for re-calling P.W.1 to mark the proposed documents.

2. The petitioners filed O.S.No. 100 of 2011 on the file of the Court of X Additional District & Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam at Anakapalle (for short, 'the Court below') inter alia for declaration of title. After the evidence was closed and the suit was coming up for arguments, they have filed the aforementioned I.As. along with I.A.No. 1228 of 2017 for receiving the proposed documents numbering two. The said applications having been dismissed by the Court below, the petitioners filed these revision petitions.

3. In the affidavit filed in support of these applications, petitioner No. 3 has stated that while preparing for arguments, her counsel advised her to bring bylaws of petitioner No. 1, that she also showed the certificate issued by Municipal School Headmaster which was already confronted to D.W.1 in the cross-examination and that therefore her counsel advised her to file the same. It is further averred that some of the records of petitioner No. 1 were held up with the past executive members and that they were readily not available with her and as such, she is advised to bring the said record or take steps for production of the same.

4. Under clause (1) of Rule 14 of Order VII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, where a plaintiff sues upon a document or relied upon document in his possession or power in support of his claim, he shall enter such documents in a list, and shall produce it in Court when the plaint is presented by him and shall, at the same time deliver the document and a copy thereof, to be filed with the plaint. Under clause (3) thereof, a document which ought to be produced in Court by the plaintiff when the plaint is presented, or to be entered in the list to be added or annexed to the plaint but is not produced or entered accordingly, shall not, without the leave of the Court, be received in evidence on his behalf at the hearing of the suit. From the aforementioned statutory provisions, it is evident that a duty is cast upon the plaintiff to enter every document on which he sues and to produce the same in Court along with the plaint. Thus, clause (3) of Rule 14 contains a statutory embargo against filing such document without leave of the Court. It is settled by a catena of judgments that the Court cannot grant leave to file documents at a belated stage for the mere asking. The plaintiff, who seeks to file documents at such stage, has to satisfy at least two conditions, namely; (1) the documents are necessary for deciding the real controversy in the suit and (2) sufficient cause for not producing the documents along with the plaint existed.

5. In G.P.R.Housing Private Limited Vs. C.Prithvi Raj Reddy, 2015 (1) ALT 330 this Court held:

"Order VII Rule 14 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 enjoins upon the plaintiff to enter all documents, upon which he relies in a list, and produce them in the Court when the plaint is presented. However, Sub-Rule (3) thereof vests power in the Court to grant leave to file the documents at a later stage but such power has to be exercised only upon the party satisfying the Court that, for convincing reasons, those documents could not be filed earlier. There can be no hard and fast rule for the Court to exercise discretion while granting leave under Sub Rule (3) of Rule 14. The Courts must always exercise sound discretion while dealing with the applications for leave to file additional material. Mere delay by itself would not constitute the sole ground for rejecting the leave. If the facts and circumstances of the case justify non-filing of the documents at an earlier stage, the Court will not reject the application for leave only on the ground of delay. In the ul