IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 01.12.2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE P.B. BALAJI CRP.No. 4 420 of 202 5 a nd CMP No.22607 of 2025 Rama Gounder ... Petitioner Vs.

Muthu ... Respondent Prayer: Civil Revision Petition filed under Section 115 of the Civil Procedure Code against the fair and decreetal order dated 19.03.2025 in I.A.No.725 of 2022 in O.S.No.109 of 2019 passed by Principal District Munsif Court, Thirukovilur.

For Petitioner : Mr.K.T.S.Sivakumar For Respondent : Mrs.R.Poornima

ORDER

Heard Mr.K.T.S.Sivakumar, the learned counsel for the revision petitioner and Mrs.R.Poornima, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. The revision petitioner is the plaintiff in O.S.No.109 of 2019, aggrieved by the order condoning the delay in filing the application to set aside the exparte decree made by the respondent/4th defendant in the suit.

3. It is the specific case of the revision petitioner that the respondent had refused to receive summons and subsequently, along with other defendants, he has also been set exparte and decree has been passed on 03.08.2021. The defendants have not chosen to file any application to set aside the exparte decree and it is only the fourth de