A party seeking to challenge a trial court's order refusing to number a plaint must first represent the plaint after addressing the court's returns before invoking high court revision jurisdiction.

ORDER

Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner.

2. The petitioner is the plaintiff, aggrieved by the learned Principal District Judge refusing to number the plaint on the ground that the suit valuation is less than Rs.1 lakh. The learned counsel counsel for the petitioner invited my attention to the prayers sought for in the suit and stated that the Court of competent jurisdiction is only the Principal District Judge.

3. However, I find that though the plaint has been returned on 28.04.2026, without even representing the same, complying with the returns, the plaintiff has rushed to this Court by way of this revision.

4. In the light of the above, the Civil Revision Petition is disposed of with the following directions:

i) The Registry shall return the original plaint to the learned counsel for the petitioner within a period of two weeks from today to enable the petitioner/plaintiff to represent the plaint before the learned Principal District Judge, within a period of two weeks thereafter.

ii) The learned Principal District Judge shall hear the learned counsel for the petitioner in open Court on the maintainability with regard to the pecuniary jurisdiction of the District Court and thereafter pass orders on maintainability within a period of four weeks thereafter.

5. With the above directions, the Civil Revision Petition is disposed of.