S. Vimala, J.

1. "We do not want to be branded as criminals, especially, when we are happy to be known as the law abiding citizens" - so saying the father-in-law and mother-in-law (revision petitioners) of the respondent/daughter-in-law filed an application before the Sub Court, Tambaram, seeking appointment of an Advocate Commissioner for the purpose of taking inventory of the articles, as described in the schedule to the petition and to place them to the custody of the Court, for passing suitable order for due return of those articles to the parties concerned.

1.1. When the Honourable Supreme Court pointed out that in family matters, pending lis causes emotional fragmentation and delay can feed it to grow, why the matrimonial Court declined to entertain the reasonable request of the in-laws to hand over the property to the daughter-in-law, is the issue raised in this case.

1.2. It is a classic case of irritable, irksome and unrelenting priests even when the Presiding deity is ready with a boon to the devotee, as though the law provided the space but not the Court.

1.3. Procrastination can be the greatest assassin of the lis in matrimonial matters. This has been pointed out in