A.N. Venugopala Gowda, J.—Petitioner is the plaintiff and respondents are the defendants in O.S. No. 1868 of 2006 pending on the file of Additional II Civil Judge (Junior Division), Bangalore Rural District, Bangalore. Petitioner having purchased the suit property on 10.5.2004 alleged that there was attempts of illegal interference with the peaceful possession and enjoyment of his property by the respondents/defendants, even after filing of a police complaint, filed the suit on 5.12.2006, to pass a decree of permanent injunction restraining the defendants and any person claiming under them from interfering with his peaceful possession and enjoyment of the property shown and described in the schedule of the plaint. Written statement was filed on 17.7.2007. Issues having been raised, plaintiff filed affidavit evidence on 26.5.2010. Since the plaintiff PW1 was not cross-examined, by treating the cross-examination as nil on 28.8.2010, the suit was posted for the evidence of defendants. On 29.9.2010, defendants filed IA. No.3, under Order 6, Rule 17 read with Section 151 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, seeking permission to amend the written statement. Though the plaintiff/petit