IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision :11.12.2025 SHYAM KAUSHIK ... PETITIONER VERSUS JAGDISH SINGH ...RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Rajinder Kumar Singla, Advocate for the petitioner.

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PARMOD GOYAL, J. (ORAL)

1. The petitioner is aggrieved by impugned order dated 04.11.2025 (Annexure P-13) passed by learned Civil Judge (Junior Division), Mansa whereby application for additional evidence preferred by the plaintiff-respondent was allowed by recalling him as PW-1.

2. It was the simple case of the plaintiff-respondent that he had appeared as PW-1 and was partly cross-examined. His cross-examination was deferred for want of records. However, on subsequent dates, the evidence of the plaintiff- respondent was closed on the basis of a statement made by his counsel, vide order dated 25.07.2025. Thereafter, it came to his notice that his cross-examination had not been completed. Accordingly, the plaintiff-respondent moved an application for leading additional evidence, which was allowed vide the impugned order dated 04.11.2025. By virtue of the said order, the plaintiff-respondent has been granted an opportunity to appear fo