JUDGEMENT

1. This petition assails an order dated 07th December, 2019, passed in CS 81/2019, (B Kalyana Raman vs. Rashi Mishra), by the learned Additional District Judge ('the learned ADJ'), in which the present petitioner was the defendant and the present respondent was the plaintiff.

2. The impugned order adjudicates three applications preferred by the petitioner as the defendant before the learned ADJ, under Order VII Rule 11 and Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC), and under Section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (Cr PC). Additionally, the impugned order strikes off the defence of the petitioner, purportedly in exercise of jurisdiction under the proviso to Order XV-A(1) of the CPC.

3. The petitioner is before this Court assailing all four decisions as contained in the impugned order.

4. CS 81/2019 was filed by the respondent against the petitioner, seeking eviction of the petitioner from the premises of the respondent. The respondent's case in the suit was that the petitioner was the respondent's tenant vide lease deed dated 22nd February, 2017, followed by a rent agreement for a further period executed on 04th January, 2018. On the petitioner fail