THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE M.SATYANARAYANA MURTHY CIVIL REVISION PETITION NO. 6499 OF 2017

ORDER

This civil revision petition is filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, challenging the order in I.A.No.140 of 2017 in O.S.No.456 of 2010 dated 25.10.2017 passed by the Additional Senior Civil Judge at Kothagudem, dismissing the application filed under Order VI Rule 17 r/w Section 151 C.P.C to amend the written statement to incorporate certain sentences in the written statement.

The petitioner herein is the defendant in the suit and she filed written statement on 17.12.2012 before the Trial Court, raising several contentions. Thereafter, the matter went on several adjournments. The witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff were examined. The petitioner herein also filed her affidavit under Order XVIII Rule 4 C.P.C, in lieu of examination-in-chief.

At that stage, the defendant herein filed petition alleging that the word ‘not’ between ‘It is’ and word ‘true’ in the sixth line of third paragraph of the written statement was foiund missing. It is submitted that, it is purely a typographical mistake and sought for amendment of the written statement to permit the petitioner to add the word