These civil revisions petitions arise out of separate but similar suits - O.S. Nos.54, 55, 56, 57, and 52 of 2011 respectively, on the file of the Junior Civil Judge, Gajuwaka. The petitioner, who is the defendant in all the five suits, is common in all these civil revision petitions. The respondents have filed the suits for perpetual injunction restraining the former from interfering with their possession of the suit schedule properties in the year 2011. At the stage of trial, the respondents/plaintiffs filed interlocutory applications under Order VI Rule 17 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) for amendment of the plaint pleadings. It was inter alia stated in the affidavits filed in support of these applications that while tracing the title to the suit schedule properties, contrary to the instructions issued by the respondents – plaintiffs, their counsel inadvertently referred the names of wrong persons instead of mentioning correct persons through whom the suit schedule property changed hands. The respondents further pleaded that the said mistake committed by their counsel was neither wilful nor wanton and there was no slightest degree of negligence on the part of the respondents in the commission of those mistakes. The petitioner filed counter affidavits opposing the said applications. However, by orders dt.4.7.2016, the lower Court has allowed the applications.
