HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.894 of 2025

ORDER

This Civil Revision Petition is filed assailing the order dated

10.02.2025 in I.A.No.696 of 2024 in O.S.No.5499 of 2022, passed by the XIX Junior Civil Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad. By the impugned order, the trial Court dismissed the application filed by the revision petitioner under Section 5 of Limitation Act seeking to condone the delay of 41 days in filing application to set aside the ex parte judgment and decree dated 01.07.2024 in OS.No.5499 of 2022.

2. Heard Sri Mohd. Adnan, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri P.Suresh Kumar, learned counsel for respondent. Perused the material available on record.

3. The revision petitioner is defendant and respondent herein is plaintiff in the suit before the trial Court.

4. Learned counsel for petitioner submitted that the trial Court, vide impugned order, dismissed the application without properly appreciating the reasons assigned by the petitioner for condonation of delay; that since the delay is very meagre i.e., only 41 days, the trial Court erred in not taking a liberal view and condoning the same and as such, the impugned order is unsust