JUDGMENT :

The question falls for consideration in this matter is whether the competent authority for grant of heirship certificate sought by the petitioner is justified in insisting copy of the First Information Report lodged in connection with the missing of the father of the petitioner for granting the said certificate excluding the name of her father.

2. The mother of the petitioner died on 14.02.2013. It is stated by the petitioner that her father Thankappan had left the company of her mother and the petitioner, about 30 years ago and his whereabouts are not known to them thereafter. It is stated that earlier also, the father of the petitioner had left the company of her mother and came back after one and a half years, and it is in the said circumstances that the mother of the petitioner did not lodge any complaint with the police in connection with the missing of her father, expecting that he would come back. Since the whereabouts of the father of the petitioner is not known for the last more than 30 years, on the death of the mother of the petitioner, the petitioner preferred an application for heirship certificate. The case of the petitioner is that since the deceased does no