The petitioner herein is the defendant in O.S.No. 108 of 2002 filed by the respondent-plaintiff for recovery of certain amount on the foot of a promissory note dated 25.12.1999 executed by the petitioner in the name of one Sri Menta Sreenivasulu, who, later on, transferred the same in favour of the respondent herein. The petitioner has also filed the written statement in the suit. On behalf of the respondent-plaintiff, P.Ws. 1 to 5 were examined and Exs.A1 to A5 were got marked. On behalf of the petitionerdefendant, D.W.1 was examined. At that stage, the petitioner filed I.A.No. 278 of 2012 to send Ex.A1 suit promissory note for opinion of the hand-writing expert. The said I.A. was allowed on 20.06.2013, but however, the hand-writing expert could not give the opinion as the defendant failed to send the required documents along with the admitted signatures. Now, again, the defendant has come up with the present Application seeking to send Ex.A1 for securing opinion of the hand-writing expert, this time, at Pune. The Court below, in the above fact scenario, has dismissed the said I.A. on the ground that the defendant, just to protract the proceedings, has come up with the said Application.
