ARUNACHALAM, J.

Both these petitions are disposed of together by a common order, since the cause is the same. These two petitions, preferred under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India, by the daughter and the father respectively, are now before us, on the orders passed by the Honourable Chief Justice, though earlier these two petitions were heard by another Division Bench constituted by K. Venkataswamy, J. and Swamidurai, J. The other bench passed an order on 21-6-1993 which reads, that the petitioner in W.P. No. 4089 of 1993, wanted this writ petition to be heard by some other Bench and in fact on her instructions her Counsel had already preferred a petition pleading for transfer. The Division Bench has stated as follows :-

"In view of that, we do not want to hear these two cases and we direct the office to place the papers before our Lord, the Hon'ble The Chief Justice for posting these two cases before some other Bench."

Thereafter, on the orders of the Hon'ble Chief Justice, both these petitions were listed before us yesterday.

2. Mr. Rupert J. Barnabas, learned Counsel representing the petitioner in W.P. No. 4089 of 1993, placed before us the earlier affidavit swor