ORDER

1. Instant writ petition has been preferred by the petitioner challenging the impugned order dated 16.01.2021 passed by the Rent Tribunal, No.1 (Additional Senior Civil Judge cum Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, No.1), Jaipur Metropolitan-I, Jaipur, in Original Application No.607/2019, titled as Smt. Mehnaaz Hussain Vs. Ghanshyam Swami, whereby the application under Section 151 of C.P.C. dated 08.01.2021 filed by the petitioner to consider the delay and allow him an opportunity to file reply to the original application, had been dismissed.

2. Facts of the present case, in brief, are that the respondent had filed a petition under Section 9 of the Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001 for eviction of the petitioner on 14.10.2019. The learned Tribunal closed the right of the petitioner to file the reply to the original application on 02.01.2020. The petitioner moved an application under Section 151 of C.P.C. to consider the delay and grant him an opportunity to file reply to the original application, which was rejected vide impugned order dated 16.01.2021 by the learned Tribunal. Hence, this petition.

3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner has submitted that the learne