Challenge in this second appeal is made to the judgment and decree dated 30.03.2001 made in A.S.No.21 of 2000 on the file of the Principal Subordinate Court, Cuddalore, confirming the judgment and decree dated 28.01.2000 made in O.S.No.62 of 1997 on the file of the Additional District Munsif, Cuddalore.

2. Parties are referred to as per their rankings in the trial Court.

3. Suit for declaration and mandatory injunction.

4. The case of the plaintiff, in brief, is that the plaintiff's parents were married under a simple form of marriage in or about the middle of 1959 and the plaintiff is the eldest son born on 17.03.1961 and his birth was registered with Sub Registrar, Parangipettai and the plaintiff's parents had no other male issue either before or after the birth of the plaintiff and Devanathan was born on 24.09.1961, who is the son of the plaintiff's mother Kuttiammal's younger sister and her husband Samikannu. As the plaintiff's parents are illiterates, they had given the date of birth of the plaintiff as 15.07.1958 at the time of admission in the school and accordingly, the said date of birth has been entered in the SSLC certificate book. After completing his studies at