ALKA SARIN, J.

1. The present revision petition has been preferred by the defendant No.1-petitioner against the impugned order dated 21.12.2022 passed by the Principal Judge, Family Court, Mansa allowing a DNA test of the defendant No.1-petitioner alongwith the plaintiff-respondent No.1.

2. The brief facts relevant to the present lis are that the plaintiff-respondent No.1 filed a suit for declaration to the effect that she is the daughter of defendant No.1-petitioner and defendant No.2-respondent No.2 and hence defendant No.1-petitioner herein being the father of the plaintiff-respondent No.1 is bound to accept her as daughter. In the plaint it has been averred that defendant-respondent No.2 i.e. Rani was married to Kaka Singh and during the life time of Kaka Singh the defendant-respondent No.2 was in a live-in relationship with the defendant No.1-petitioner and out of the said relationship the plaintiff-respondent No.1 herein was born on 15.12.1996. Kaka Singh is stated to have died in September 2013 and the defendant No.1-petitioner and defendant-respondent No.2 continued to live together. It has further been averred that the plaintiff-respondent No.1 has always been treated as a