(Prayer: Application filed under Order XIV Rule 8 of O.S. Rules r/w Order VI Rule 17 of the Code of Civil Procedure, seeking to add the reliefs, after the prayer.)

1. This application is filed by the applicant/plaintiff seeking amendment to the plaint by introducing an additional prayer and for payment of additional court fees.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to hereunder according to their litigative status and ranking in the suit.

3. The case of the plaintiff is as follows:

(a) The suit was originally filed for a declaration declaring that the assessment of property tax made in favour of the first defendant, by defendants 6 and 7 as null and void and consequently to direct the defendants 6 and 7 to effect transfer of the property tax assessment in the name of the plaintiff and for a direction to defendants 4 and 5 to issue patta in favour of the plaintiff, with respect to the suit property etc.

(b) The suit property originally belonged to the joint family, managed by P.N. Radhakrishnan and P.A. Ananthakrishnan. The aforesaid P.N. Radhakrishnan died intestate on 11.05.1955 and the said P.A. Ananthakrishnan became the kartha of the Hindu joint family.