UMAR ATA BANDIAL, J.--- This regular first appeal is filed against the judgment of the learned Additional District Judge, Lahore issued on 2.3.2005 allowing the claim of the respondent in a suit based on promissory note dated 18.7.2001 drawn by the appellant in the amount of Rs. 1,25,000/- alongwith corresponding receipt duly signed by the marginal witnesses. Before this Court learned counsel for the appellant has denied the promissory note forming the basis of suit for recovery as being a forged and fictitious document. In this behalf he read from the statement of the appellant as DW-1 wherein he has specifically denied the signatures and thumb impressions affixed on the promissory note. On the other hand, the promissory note in question, Exh.PA has been duly proved on record through the production of two marginal witnesses. It bears the thumb impression and signatures of the executants at several places on the face of the promissory note as well as the reverse side thereof. The document having been proved on record it was for the appellant- defendant to have brought evidence to establish the plea of alleged forgery of his signatures and thumb impression on Exh.PA. Nothing in this respect was done by the appellant either to get the document examined and opined on by a forensic expert or to place material on record for comparison and assessm ent of the question by the learned Trial Court itself. Indeed in this respect the extensive cross-examination on behalf of the appellant of three witnesses of the respondent does not contain any question for disproving the appellant's subscription of the promissory note.
2. The impugned order has considered the pleas advanced by the appellant on the basis of evidence on record but in the light of the fact that the pronote as well as payment of the loan amount stand proved on record it has, in the absence of any evidence of alleged fraud, rejected the allegations made by the appellant in his defence. Accordingly the judgment by the learned Trial Court has not been shown to suffer from any infirmity or illegality with reference to the record of the case or the findings given. In the result this appeal stands dismissed with no order as to costs.
RFA Dismissed.