JUDGMENT :

Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J.

1. By way of this writ petition, the defendant-petitioner assails the order dated 14/02/2018 whereby the application moved by the defendant-petitioner under Order 18 Rule 3 CPC has been rejected by the learned trial court.

2. Brief facts of the case are that the plaintiff-respondent filed an eviction suit against the defendant-petitioner on the ground of default in payment of arrears of rent, nonuser and fixation of standard rent. The suit came to be allowed by the learned trial court vide judgment and decree dated 08/08/1995. First Appeal was preferred by the defendant-petitioner as well as the plaintiff-respondent against the order of the trial court and the High Court vide order dated 15/03/2016 remanded the matter back holding that the entire rent determined provisionally was paid and the benefit of first default was not examined. The plaintiff-respondent submitted an application for amendment in the plaint which was rejected by the learned trial court against which writ petition came to be filed and the High Court allowed the writ petition vide order dated 22/11/2016 granting liberty to the plaintiff-respondent for making amendments. After am