( 1 ) THE petitioner is a practicing Advocate. He is a tenant under the respondent allegedly on a monthly rent of Rs. 700. 00 per month. He is neither paying rent nor water and electricity charges and yet is enjoying the premises with arrears mounting to Rs. 39,304. 00. The landlord, on the other hand is stated to be a retired Government servant aged about 70 years with failing eye sight. Driven to the wall, he filed a suit under Order 37 of the Code of Civil Procedure for recovery of Rs. 39,304. 00. In response to that the present petitioner filed an application for leave to appear and defend the suit. The learned Civil Judge granted him the permission subject to his furnishing a bond for the suit amount. The petitioner is not prepared to furnish even that. Hence this revision petition.

( 2 ) THE facts as narrated above paint a pathetic scene. The tenant wants to enjoy all the facilities - the premises, the supply of electricity and the flow of water and yet would not pay. He is not even prepared to furnish a bond. It appears, and this is not disputed even by the petitioner-tenant, that in the year 1994 a dispute led the parties to the Police Station. At the Police Sta