ORDER :- This is a petition to revise and final order under S. 145, Cr. P. Code, passed by a Special First Class Magistrate of Aska, in the district of Ganjam, declaring the opposite party (1st party before him) to be entitled to possession of the disputed property until eviction in due course of law. 2. A proceeding under S. 145, Cr. P. Code was initiated on 6-9-1942 on account of a dispute between the parties regarding certain plots of land in village Lekhamari. P.S. Bodogada. As there was a! criminal case between the parties in respect of the same property, that proceeding was kept pending. The Criminal case was fought up to the High Court and the judgment of the High Court was given only on 7-8-1958 (Criminal Revision No. 331/1957). In that judgment, the trial Court's finding regarding possession of the disputed property by the complainant was upheld as it was based partly on the presumption of correctness attaching to the recent settlement entry and partly on the oral evidence of witnesses. After the delivery of judgment by the High Court, the proceeding under S. 145, Cr. P. Code, was resumed, and on 22-9-1958 the learned Magistrate gave both parties an opportunity to file documents and affidavits in support of their respective claims and further observed that the trial will be according to the amended procedure". Strictly speaking this view of the Magistrate is wrong because the amendment made to S.145, Cr. P.C. (by Act XXVI) of 1956 was not given retrospective effect so as to affect pending proceedings (see S. 160) and the case-should have been disposed of in accordance with the law as it stood prior to the amendment. But neither party took any objection to this view of the Magistrate. If the petitioner felt aggrieved he should have immediately come to this Court in revision, or at any rate, on the next day of hearing, ho could have filed an objection requesting the Magistrate to re-consider his view. The case was adjourned to 13-10-1958, 17-11-1958. 15-12-1958 and 19-12-1958. The opposite party filed documents and : affidavits in support of their claims including the judgment of this Court in Criminal Revision 331 of 1957. The petitioner asked for time for filing his documents and affidavits. He did not volunteer to lead evidence on his behalf. The case was adjourned to 13-10-1958, 17-11-1958. 15-12-1958 and 19-12-1958. The opposite party filed documents and : affidavits in support of their claims including the judgment of this Court in Criminal Revision 331 of 1957. The petitioner asked for time for filing his documents and affidavits. He did not volunteer to lead evidence on his behalf. After giving several adjournments the Magistrate ordered on 19-12-195and that he could not grant any more adjournments as the case was pending for more than six years and then he disposed of it on the materials available before him and held the first party (apposite party") to be entitled to possession of the disputed property. 3. Mr. H.G. Panda on behalf of the petitioner fairly conceded that, on the materials available before the Magistrate on 19-12-1958 the finding infavour of the opposite party was justified but he raised two important contentions in support of this; revision petition. (i) The Magistrate should have exercised his discretion in favour of the petitioner and granted him-a further adjournment on 10-12-1958 so as to enable him to file a copy of the order of the Board of Revenue by which the entry in the record of rights in favour of the opposite party was corrected by the Board, in a revision petition; and (ii) The enquiry in this case should have beers, held in accordance with old S. 145, Cr. P.C. and not in accordance with the new procedure laid down in that Section as amended and that consequently the final order based on the new procedure is invalid being without jurisdiction. 4. The first contention can be disposed of in a few words. The granting of adjournment is a discretionary matter. Mr. Panda produced before us a certified copy of the order of the Board of Revenue dated March 1958. This could have been obtained prior to 19-12-1958 by the petitioner and no satisfactory explanation was given for its non-production before the lower Court. In view of the innumerable adjournments already granted and the long delay in disposing of the matter, the Court was justified in refusing to grant any further adjournments and as a Court of Revision I am not inclined to interfere with the exercise of discretion by the Magistrate. 5. As regards the second contention the question for consideration is whether the trial of a pending proceeding under S. 145, Cr. 5. As regards the second contention the question for consideration is whether the trial of a pending proceeding under S. 145, Cr. P. Code under the new procedure is wholly void as being without jurisdiction notwithstanding the fact that the parties did not object to the same. It does not come within any of the categories of invalid proceedings specified in S. 530, Cr. P. Code. Under the old procedure the parties were entitled to examine witnesses in support of their respective contentions whereas under the new procedure affidavits of parties and their witnesses would suffice - unless the Court desires to examine those persons whose affidavits have been put in as to the facts contained therein. There has thus been only a change in the mode of conducting the enquiry under S.145, Cr. P.C. and any irregularity in the conduct of enquiry can not by itself suffice to render the final order invalid, unless it can be shown that a party has been materially prejudiced thereby. In my opinion, this case will come within the scope of S. 537, Cr. P.C. and as pointed out in the Explanation thereto, the question as to whether the petitioner objected to the mode of enquiry at the earliest possible stage is very material. The petitioner did not object to the mode of enquiry at any stage but, on the contrary, he only wanted time to file affidavits of his witnesses and also to file documents. Mr. Misra for the opposite party drew my attention to a decision reported in Balkishore v. Phulena, AIR 1959 Pat 284 , where a Magistrate, in a proceeding under S. 145, Cr. P.C. first examined some of the parties under the old procedure and then allowed the parties to file their affidavits under the new procedure. The learned Judge held that in the absence of any prejudice the order of the Magistrate could not be impugned. Doubtless, this instant case is slightly distinguishable on facts, from the Patna case, inasmuch as, here no witness was examined by either party and the petitioner also did not file affidavits in support of his claims. But he did not object when the Magistrate by an express order dated 22-9-1958, Informed the parties that the trial would be held according to the amended procedure. But he did not object when the Magistrate by an express order dated 22-9-1958, Informed the parties that the trial would be held according to the amended procedure. On the other hand, in his subsequent petitions for time he made it clear that he was not going to examine any witnesses on his behalf, but only wanted time to file affidavits of his witnesses and documents. He has thus clearly submitted to the new procedure and the principle laid down in the aforesaid Patna decision would apply notwithstanding the distinction on facts. 6. I see therefore no reason to interfere with the final order of the Magistrate. The Revision Petition is dismissed. Revision dismissed.