a Sweeper working in the Municipality and she borrowed a sum of Rs.1,00,000/- from the respondent on 27.08.2012 by executing a registered mortgage deed on her property in S.No.1657/1A1 on 27.08.2012. The respondent had filed two suits based on the mortgage deed dated 27.08.2012 in O.S.No.129 of 2014 and the present suit in O.S.No.128 of 2014 based on the pro-note dated 04.09.2012. The earlier suit filed in O.S.No.129 of 2014 was also decreed ex-parte . However, in the execution petition, the matter was referred to Lok Adalat and this petitioner has settled the entire amount to the respondent/plaintiff in that suit. However, in the present suit, the petitioner was under the impression that both the suits were closed in view of the payment made before the Lok Adalat and only at a later point of time, the petitioner came to know about the pendency of the present suit in O.S.No.128 of 2014. She also raised certain issues against her previous counsel that her son questioned the counsel for not informing the procedures, for which, the counsel lodged a criminal complaint as against the petitioner's son before the Theni Police Station. Therefore, advocates