IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on:21.02.2025 Pronounced on:01.03.2025 RAJWINDER KAUR & ORS. ...PETITIONERS VS.

INDERPAL SINGH AND ORS ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUVIR SEHGAL Present: Mr. Ashish Aggarwal, Advocate for the petitioners.

None for respondent No.1.

Service of respondents No.2 & 3 was ordered to be dispensed with by this Court vide order dated 16.01.2025.

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SUVIR SEHGAL, J.

1. Petitioners have approached this Court assailing order dated 25.09.2024, Annexure P-5, whereby an application for conducting DNA test of respondent No.1/plaintiff, has been rejected.

2. Counsel for the petitioners states that there is a property dispute between the parties and respondent No.1/plaintiff has filed a suit for declaration to the effect that he is a joint owner in the agricultural land left behind by Narinder Singh, deceased, on the basis of inheritance. He submits that the paternity of respondent No.1 has been disputed by the petitioner in the written statement. In order to ascertain the truth, counsel asserts that an application, Annexure P-3, was filed for conducting the DNA profiling of respondent No.1/plaintiff and comparing it with that of