IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT:- THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.N.KRISHNAN FRIDAY, THE 30TH MAY 2008 / 9TH JYAISHTA 1930 W.P.(C).No.16121 of 2008(T) --------------------------------------------------------- O.S.NO.339/2007 OF THE II ADDITIONAL SUB COURT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. .................... PETITIONER:- -------------------- P.L.SARASWATHY, W/O.LATE N.VISWANATHAN, RESIDING AT FLAT NO.3A, SKYLINE MELODY, D.P.I. JUNCTION, THYCAUD VILLAGE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SRI.V.E.ABDUL GAFOOR SRI.A.MOHAMMED SAVAD RESPONDENT:- ---------------------- DR.SASIKUMAR VISWANATH, S/O.LATE N.VISWANATHAN, RESIDING AT 6382 HIGHWAY 393, CREST VIEW, FL 32539, U.S.A., REPRESENTED BY POWER OF ATTORNEY HOLDER, DR. N.MURALEEDHARAN NAIR, S/O.LATE NEELAKANTAN NAIR, AGED 57, R/AT.TC.IX/1070 KUZHIVILA VEEDU, KALLAMPALLY,SREEKARYAM PO, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 30/05/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:- M.N.Krishnan,J. -------------------------------- W.P.(C).No.16121 of 2008-T -------------------------------- Dated, this the 30th day of May, 2008 JUDGMENT This writ petition is preferred with a prayer to direct the II Additional Subordinate Judge, Thiruvananthapuram to dispose of O.S.No.339 of 2007 within a time frame to be fixed by this Court. 2. It is submitted that the petitioner is a sixty nine year old lady, who has an Orthopaedically handicapped daughter. The case is one for defamation. It may not be correct for this Court to give a direction for a time bound disposal of a 2007 case when a large number of old cases are pending before that Court. But, the fact that the petitioner is a senior citizen and she has got certain difficulties are matters which the petitioner can bring to the notice of the Subordinate Judge's Court by filing an application for advancement and early trial. When such an application is filed, the Court below shall consider the same sympathetically after hearing both sides and decide whether it has to be given priority or not. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. M.N.Krishnan Judge vku/-