ORDER :- This revision is sought to be filed by the tenant in H. R. C. O. P. 16 of 1980 on the file of the Rent Controller (Principal District Munsif), Tiruvannamalai, against the order passed by the Rent Controller dismissing M.P. 9/82 filed by him for reopening the case for the purpose of examining the petitioner's witness viz., the previous landlord's son Sri Mohan Kumar for proving the regular payment of rent.

2. It transpires from the impugned order that after examination of the witness on the side of the landlord, the case stood posted on 15-3-1982 and thereafter on 13-4-1982 on which date the tenant represented that ho had no witness to be examined on his side. Then the case stood posted at the request of both the parties, to 22-4-1982 for arguments, on which date the petitioner took out an application with an affidavit that he intended to examine a witness on his side. But, he has not given either the name of the witness to be examined on his side or the reasons for such intended examination. It was under these circumstances the Court dismissed the petition holding that the present application had been taken by the petitioner for the purpose of dragging the main pro