1. The petitioner before this Court has filed this present writ petition being aggrieved by the order dated 16.3.2012, passed by 21st Additional District Judge, Indore in Civil Suit No.19-A/2011 (Pankaj Agrawal v. Shri Shyam Kuril and two others). The learned Additional District Judge has dismissed the application preferred under section 33 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 filed by the present petitioner (defendant No.2).

2. Facts of the case reveal that plaintiff Pankaj Agrawal-respondent No.2 in the present writ petition, has filed a suit for grant of declaration and injunction under Order 7 rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, as stated in the plaint, based upon an agreement dated 15.4.2011. The petitioner has preferred an application under section 33 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 stating therein that the document dated 15.4.2011 has not been properly stamped and, therefore, in the light of the statutory provisions as contained under section 33 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, the same be impounded and sent to the Collector of Stamps for adjudication. The learned trial Court after hearing the arguments on the application preferred by the defendants, has dismissed the app