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3. Ld. Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the absence of the petitioner before the Trial Court on 17.5.2012 was neither intentional nor deliberate but genuinely on account of illness of the petitioner. Photocopy of the medical certificate dated 11.5.2012 issued by Dr. L.K. Upaal of M/s. Uppal Medical Centre has been annexed alongwith revision petition, which shows that the petitioner had been advised rest from 11.5.12 till 30.5.2012.

4. I also feel not inclined to accept the aforesaid medical certificate. It shows that the petitioner had approached the doctor on 11.5.2012 and he was diagnosed to be suffering from enteric fever. I fail to understand how the doctor advised bed rest to the petitioner in one go for about 20 days i.e. till 30.5.2012. The prescription given to the petitioner and the tests if any, prescribed to him have nowhere been mentioned. It seems that the medical certificate is a procured document and far from being genuine. Even otherwise also, the same could have been easily filed before the Trial Court on 17.5.2012, if it was in fact, issued by the doctor on 11.5.2012.