ORDER :

PRADEEP SINGH YERUR, J.

Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents.

2. This petition is filed by petitioner/defendant No.2 seeking to set aside the impugned order passed by the Principal Senior Civil Judge and CJM, in O.S.No.155/2018 dated 24.03.2025 on I.A.No.1.

3. The parties to the proceedings shall be referred to as plaintiff and defendant No.2, for the sake of brevity.

4. The brief facts of the case are as under:

Plaintiff filed a suit for partition and separate possession of his legitimate share in the suit schedule property by metes and bounds and to declare the registered sale deeds dated 22.05.2013 and 29.09.2014 to be null and void and not binding and for other consequential reliefs.

5. Defendant No.2 filed an application requesting the Court to permit him to file written statement by condoning the delay of six years. The said application filed by defendant No.2 upon contest came to be rejected by the trial Court by imposing a cost of Rs.500/-. It is this order that is questioned by the learned counsel for petitioner/defendant No.2.

6. It is the vehement contention of learned counsel for defendant No.2 that the impugned order passed by th