1. This petition filed under Sec. 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for brevity the Code) is directed against the order dated 20-2-2003 passed by the Addl. Civil Judge (Sr. Division), Gidderbaha dismissing the applicant of the defendant-petitioner filed under Order 26, Rule 10-A read with Sec. 151 of the Code. The prayer made in the application was that the disputed pronote and receipt 11-2-1998 be sent to Forensic Science Lab. Govt. of N.C.T., Delhi to find out the age of the ink used on the stamps.

2. The plaintiff-respondent has filed a suit against the defendant-petitioner for recovery of Rs. 5,83,400.00 by propounding a pronote and receipt dated 11-2-1998. The defence taken by the defendant-petitioner is the plaintiff-respondent has manipulated the disputed pronote and receipt in his favour by alleging that it was executed on 11-2-1998. The defendant-petitioner has claimed that he had signed the stamps and had given the figure of Rs. 4,70,000.00 on the blank pronote and receipt to one Shri Sushil Kumar Singla of M/s. Singla Trading Company, Sirsa many years before 11-2-1998. The plaintiff-respondent has also examined one Shri Navdeep Gupta, an expert from Patia