JUDGMENT

This Civil Revision Petition has been directed against the order dated 31.10.2013 passed by the court of learned Principal District Judge Baramulla (for short ‘trial court’) on an application for bringing the legal heirs of defendant No.1-deceased Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq, on record, in a suit titled “Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd. Branch T.P. Baramulla Vs. Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq & Anr.”

2. Vide impugned order, the trial court decided an application moved by the plaintiff-Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd., for bringing the legal heirs of defendant-Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq, on record, and the said application was allowed and the legal heirs of the deceased- defendant No. I were ordered to be substituted in his place.

3. Aggrieved of the impugned order, the petitioners herein have assailed the impugned order on the grounds, that the deceased defendant No.1-Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq had died on 01.02.2002 and being well known political leader of the Valley, the news of his death was carried out by all the local dailies as well as electronic media and this fact was also known to the plaintiff-Bank, however, no application was filed for brining on record his legal heirs within six months of limitation