IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VIVEK JAIN

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ON THE 4 OF FEBRUARY, 2026 MISC. PETITION No. 4369 of 2025 RAMJEE SINGH AND OTHERS Versus SHRIRAM SINGH AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Naveen Kumar - Advocate for the Petitioner.

Shri Kapil Rohra - Advocate for the Respondent No.1.

Shri Avnish Khatri - Panel Lawyer for the Respondent No.2/State.

ORDER By way of the present Petition, challenge is made to the Order dated

09.07.2025 passed by the Trial Court whereby the Trial Court has partly allowed the application for amendment in written statement by permitting certain paragraphs to be inserted in the written statement but rejected that part of the proposed amendment whereby the counter claim was sought to be inserted in the written statement.

2. The suit was initially filed in the year 2018 and written statement was filed in the year 2018 itself. The issues were settled and thereafter, the case was set out for Plaintiff's evidence. At the stage of Plaintiff's evidence, an application under Order 6 Rule 17 for amendment was filed whereby the defendants sought to amend certain pleadings in the written statement so also wanted to insert counter claim. The