Dr. A.K.Jayasankaran Nambiar, J.

This Mat. Appeal impugns the order dated 15.01.2026 in IA No.1 of

2025 in OP.No.746 of 2024 of the Family Court, Thrissur.

2. Briefly stated the facts necessary for the disposal of this Mat.

Appeal are as follows:

The respondent herein, who is the husband of the 1^st appellant, had filed an Original Petition before the Family Court alleging that in view of the filing of a POCSO case against him alleging victimisation of his daughter, he had been defamed by his wife and hence he was entitled to damages. It was also his case that the defamation having arisen in circumstances arising out of the marital relationship between him and the 1^st appellant, and the POCSO case registered against him having been ultimately referred by the Investigating Officer on finding that there was no substance in the allegation in the complaint, the act of the 1^st appellant herein amounted to cruelty.

3. In the said Original Petition, the appellants herein filed an applicati