JUDGMENT :

P.G. Ajithkumar, J.

Ext.P8 is the order dated 06.12.2021 of the Family Court, Kollam in E.A.No.101 of 2021 in E.P.No.2 of 2020 in O.S.No.230 of 2003. The petitioners have filed the said execution application seeking to dismiss the execution petition as not maintainable. The Family Court dismissed that application. Feeling aggrieved thereof, the petitioners have filed this Original Petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.

2. On 12.01.2022, this Original Petition was admitted and notice was directed to be served on the respondents. Operation of the judgment in O.S.No.230 of 2003 was stayed, to the extent it relates to the recovery of value of the gold ornaments on the condition of deposit of Rs.3,60,000/-within a period of two weeks.

3. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and the learned counsel appearing for the respondents.

4. O.S.No.230 of 2003 was decreed in part as per the judgment dated 15.03.2011. The decree reads,-

“In the result, the suit is partly decreed directing the defendants to return 68.937 sovereigns of gold ornaments or the present value of same, to the 1st plaintiff. Defendants 1 to 3 are directed to pay Rs.2,00,000/-with in