(1.) The instant appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 06.08.2020 passed by a learned Single Judge whereby, Chamber Appeal registered as OA 122/2019, filed by the appellants/plaintiffs in CS(OS) 182/2019, challenging the order dated 30.09.2020, passed by the learned Joint Registrar closing their right to file the replication in response to the written statement of the respondents/defendants, has been dismissed.
(2.) The appellants/plaintiffs herein had instituted a suit on the Original Side of the court in April, 2019 with the following prayers:-
(3.) Summons were issued in the suit and the case was adjourned to 23.07.2019. In the meantime, written statement was filed by the respondents/defendants. When the matter was listed in court on 23.07.2019, learned counsel for the appellants/plaintiffs had stated that he had received a copy of the written statement and the court had granted him four weeks' to file the replication and the affidavit of admission/denial of documents. The suit was directed to be posted before the learned Joint Registrar on 30.09.2019, for further proceedings. On 30.09.2019, when learned counsel for the appellants/plaintiffs had sought for more time from the learned Joint Registrar to file the replication, noting that over two months had lapsed reckoned from 23.7.2019, he had closed their right to do so and directed that admission/denial of the documents of the respondents/defendants be carried out. The order passed by the learned Joint Registrar on 30.09.2019, reads as under: