RAJ MOHAN SINGH
Municipal Council Kapurthala – Appellant
Versus
Chaman Lal – Respondent
Mr. Raj Mohan Singh, J.: (Oral) - This revision petition is directed against the order dated 23.09.2015 (Annexure P-6) passed by Civil Judge (Jr. Divn.) Kapurthala, whereby application for de-exhibiting of documents has been dismissed.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that the documents have been exhibited at the back of the defendant when his counsel was busy in some other case.
3. In the order itself presence of the learned counsel for the defendant has been marked. Had the learned counsel been not present, the only course open before the trial Court was to proceed against him ex parte without exhibiting the document in question. Since the document has been exhibited, it implies that the learned counsel for the defendant was very much present in the Court.
4. Above all mere exhibition of document does not dispense with the proof of its execution. The veracity and genuineness of the documents has to be tested at the relevant stage.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioner cites Johny vs. James, 2006(3) Civil Court Cases, 665 (Kerala). The cited case relates to admission of documents in evidence in terms of Order 13 Rule 4 CPC which mandates that mere procedural ir
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