ORDER :

M. Seetharama Murti, J.

1. The unsuccessful respondent in GWOP No. 1 of 2014 on the file of the Court of the learned X Additional District Judge, Gurazala, filed this civil revision petition, under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, being aggrieved of the intermediary order, dated 24.7.2018, passed by the said learned Judge in the afore-stated GWOP.

2. I have heard the submissions of Dr. Challa Srinivasa Reddy, learned Counsel, appearing for the revision petitioner/respondent, (hereinafter, 'respondent'), and of Ms. T.V. Sridevi, learned Counsel for the respondent/petitioner, (hereinafter, 'petitioner'). I have perused the material record.

3. The introductory facts, in brief, are as follows:

The petitioner filed the afore-stated GWOP for appointing him as natural guardian of a minor girl, Pokuri Neeraja, and for granting the custody of the said girl to him, he being the father of the said girl. The respondent, who is the maternal grandfather of the said girl, is resisting the said OP. During the course of trial, when the petitioner was being examined as PW 1, the learned Counsel for the respondent confronted his previous deposition (PW 1's previous deposition) in MC No. 2