O R D E R

The petitioner is the defendant in O.S.No.181 of 2015 on the file of the learned Additional Junior Civil Judge, Kukatpally, Ranga Reddy District. He filed I.A.No.598 of 2018 therein under Order 3 Rules 1 and 2 CPC to eschew the evidence of P.R.Mohan, the GPA holder, who was to be examined as P.W.1. By order dated 04.10.2018, the trial Court dismissed the I.A. Aggrieved thereby, he is before this Court.

Heard Sri K.V.Janardhan Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner-

defendant, and Sri V.V.Subrahmanyam, learned counsel representing Sri E.Narsimha Swamy, learned counsel for the respondent-plaintiff. The plaintiff in the suit executed General Power of Attorney (GPA)

dated 4th April, 2015 authorising his father, P.R.Mohan to represent him in any Court in India and to appear personally in his place before any such Court. On the strength of this GPA, P.R.Mohan filed his affidavit in lieu of chief-examination on 22.12.2017 deposing as P.W.1. It is this affidavit which was targeted by the defendant by filing the subject I.A.

By the order under revision, the trial Court noted that in terms of Rule 32 of the Civil Rules of Practice framed by this Court, a GPA holder could step into the