2025:KER:29734 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN & THE HONOURABLE MRS. JUSTICE M.B. SNEHALATHA MONDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF APRIL 2025 / 17TH CHAITHRA, 1947 OP (FC) NO. 209 OF 2025 ORDER DATED 23.10.2024 IN IA NO.23/2024 IN OP NO.183 OF 2020, FAMILY COURT, PALA PETITIONER/PETITIONER/RESPONDENT: ANIYAMMA JOSE, AGED 72 YEARS, WIFE OF LATE JOSE RESIDING AT NJALLLAKKATTU HOUSE, VELLLIAPALLY P.O, VELLIAPALLLY KARA, MEENACHIL VILLAGE, MEENACHIL TALLUK, KOTTAYAM DISTRICT., PIN – 686574. BY ADVS. ABRAHAM GEORGE JACOB SHAHNA M.R.ATHUL RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT/ PETITIONER : REEBA THOMAS, AGED ABOUT 40 YEARS, WIFE OF TOMSON JOSE, RESIDING AT NJALLAKKATTU HOUSE, PALA P.O, PALLA KARA, MEENACHILL VILLAGE, MEENACHIL TALUK., PIN – 686574. THIS OP (FAMILY COURT) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 07.04.2025, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: 2025:KER:29734 OP (FC) NO. 209 OF 2025 -2- JUDGMENT Devan Ramachandran, J. After arguing this matter for some time, Sri.Abraham George Jacob – learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that his client has approached this Court because she was under the impression that the learned Family Court will not call for the report from the Forensic Science Laboratory, in spite of his request to do so through IA No.23/2024. He explained that his client bona fide believes that IA No.23/2024 has been, therefore, dismissed. 2. However, when we alerted Sri.Abraham George Jacob that the impugned order merely says that the stage is premature; and that the petition has not been considered on its merits, thus leaving liberty to the parties to invoke 2025:KER:29734 OP (FC) NO. 209 OF 2025 -3- any remedy that may be available at the relevant time, he sought permission to withdraw this Original Petition with liberty to approach this Court again, if so required. In the afore circumstances, this Original Petition is dismissed as having been withdrawn, with every liberty available to the parties in law being expressly kept open. Sd/- DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN JUDGE Sd/- M.B.SNEHALATHA akv JUDGE