( 1 ) THIS order will dispose of the application of the plaintiff for delivering interrogatories upon defendant No. 2. The brief facts which have resulted in filing the present application are that :- 7 The plaintiff No. 3, the wife and plaintiffs 1 and 2 the son and daughter of defendant No. I, have filed this suit for partition, rendition of accounts and declaration in respect of certain properties, as have been mentioned in the plaint. The allegations made in the plaint are th. it defendants 1 to 4 were carrying on business at various places in India ann abroad as members of a joint Hindu family and some of the business name owned by the said joint hindu family arc "khem Chand Raj Kumar", "khem Chand Vijay Kumar", "shiv Chand Steel Rolling Mills", "steel Corporation of Punjab", "khem Chand Ajay Kumar", "malvika Machine Tools" be-iides others. It is alleged that defendant No. 2 being the eldest male member of the family had been acting as Manager and Karta of Hindu Undivided Family and had been maintaining all accounts of various incomes and funds belonging to the family. Plaintiffs I and 2 claiming themselves to betide co-parceners of the said joint Hindu property h