S. MANIKUMAR, J.

Civil Revision Petitions are filed against the order dated 09.04.2007 made in I.N.No.2 of 2007 and M.A.No.11 of 2007, on the file of the learned Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal, Chennai, confirming the order dated 15.11.2006 in I.A.No.510 of 2004 in O.A.No.98 of 2003, on the file of Debts Recovery Tribunal-II, Chennai.

2. Shorts facts leading to the revision are that I.A.Nos.509 and 510 of 2004, have been filed, by the 1st defendant, in O.A.Nos.97 and 98 of 2003, seeking permission to lead oral evidence, to substantiate the defence, in the aforesaid O.As. Submissions made before the Debts Recovery Tribunal are as follows:

"(a) The O.A.Nos.97 of 2003 and 98 of 2003 are connected matters and the facts and principal questions involved in the OAs are same and similar. V.M.S. Jafarulla, the proprietor of 3rd defendant (D3) in O.A.No.97 of 2003, and his brothers V.M.S. Mohammed Sherfudeen and V.M.S. Haji Mohamed, the proprietor of D3 in O.A.No.98 of 2003 and one Asia Banu wife of the said V.M.S. Haji Mohamed, along with a person introduced by them as N.M. Sha