M.V. Muralidaran, J.—The defendants 2 and 3 are the petitioners before this Court.

2. The case of the plaintiffs is that the first plaintiff is daughter and the second plaintiff is wife of the first defendant viz., S.N.Natarajan. The suit schedule of properties was inherited as per the partition deed dated 09.02.1987 as partitioned between the first plaintiff and the first defendant and the said property is in ancestral property. As per the above partition deed dated 09.02.1987, half of the suit schedule of property belongs to the first plaintiff and the other half of the property belongs to the first defendant. Due to the continuous drunken stage of the first defendant and to continuous request of the second plaintiff, the second plaintiff left the first defendant with the first plaintiff and living at O.Nanjangoundampalayam from 1996 onwards. From that day onwards, the first defendant is not visited the plaintiffs family and not paid any maintenance amount. In fact, the first defendant is earning from his employment and also from the agricultural Rs.5,000/- per month and the same was used for drinking as well as illegal activities. The first defendant on the corner site of th