JUDGMENT :

By way of this Revision Petition, the petitioner/tenant has challenged order passed by the learned Rent Controller, Shimla, H.P., in the eviction proceedings initiated against him by contesting respondents/landlord, in terms whereof an application filed under Order 18, Rule 17 read with Section 151 of the Civil Procedure Code, praying for recalling petitioner/PW3 Rajinder Kumar Sood for the purpose of further cross-examination has been rejected.

2. Brief facts necessary for the adjudication of the present petition are as under:

An application under Order 18, Rule 17 read with Section 151 of the Civil Procedure Code was filed by the petitioner/ tenant (hereinafter referred to as the ‘tenant’), on the ground that an application under Order 6, Rule 17 of the Civil Procedure Code for amendment of reply filed by him was allowed by the learned Rent Controller on 27.11.2020, therefore, it was necessary to further cross-examine PW3 as statement of this witness stood recorded on 16.05.2019, i.e. before the amendment was allowed.

3. The application was resisted by the non-applicants/ landlords, on the ground that there was no necessity for cross-examination of plaintiff/PW3 on the gro