JUDGMENT

M.B.Snehalatha.J Petitioners challenge Ext.P6 order of the Family Court, Kottarakkara in I.A.No.151/2025 in O.P.1083/2018 by which the said interlocutory application filed by them for conducting 'sibling DNA test' between the petitioners 2 and 3 and respondents 2 to 5 was dismissed.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioners explained that the petitioners had filed I.A No.151/2025 in the said Original Petition for conducting the DNA test since the respondents denied the paternity of the petitioners 2 and 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners argued that the petitioners filed O.P.No.1083/2018 seeking partition of the properties left behind by late Balakrishna Pillai, who was the husband of the 1^st petitioner and the father of petitioners 2 and 3; but that the respondents denied the paternity of petitioners 2 and 3 and also denied the marriage between the 1^st petitioner and Balakrishna Pillai. It was contended by the petitioners that when they sought partition of the properties left behind by deceased Balakrishna Pillai, respondents resisted the claim for partition stating that petitioners have no right in the property; and hence, that it becomes necessary for a declara