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2026 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 5620

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN, M.B. SNEHALATHA, JJ
PONNAMMA AGED 83 YEARS W/O LATE BALAKRISHNA PILLAI – Appellant
Versus
T G THANKAMMA AGED 84 YEARS – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: SHRI.G.SREEKUMAR (CHELUR)
For the Respondents: SRI.SIDHARTH A.MENON, SHRI.V.AJAKUMAR, SMT.SANDRA ANN T. JOSEPH, SMT.MEKHA SURESH, SHRI.BILAL JAHARSHA

Table of Content
1. challenge to the dismissal of a dna test application. (Para 1 , 2 , 3)
2. disputed marriage and paternity claims in partition suit. (Para 4 , 5)
3. conditions governing dna testing in legal proceedings. (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 12)
4. final judgment dismissing the original petition. (Para 13)

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 1st 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 1st petitioner

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