The petitioners are the defendants in a suit filed by the re­spondent-plaintiffs for permanent injunction. The suit was filed in the year 1988 and has been continuing for 22 years.

2. The plaintiffs had sought an amendment in the plaint on at least three occasions. The first amendment had been allowed in 1992. The other amend­ment which was filed in relation to a fact that had intervened during the pen­dency of the suit, namely, an allegation that during the pendency of the suit defendants had encroached upon the disputed land further by setting up a Maraha ( thatched roof). This application under Order VI, Rule 17 was moved in the year 2001 and was allowed on 4th September, 2001. The suit proceeded thereafter and after the close of evidence and cross-examination, the petition­ers who are the defendants, moved an application on 3.4.2010 praying for an in­dulgence to file an additional written statement. This application for leave to file an additional written statement has been rejected on 19.5.2011 and the re­vision filed against the same has been dismissed on 31.1.2012. Aggrieved by these orders, the defendants are in this writ petition before this Court.

3. Sri Shiv