T. Raja, J.

This writ petition has been filed by Mrs. Neelavathi, wife of Mr. P. Sivagnanam, challenging the impugned proceedings dated 13.02.2018 passed by the first respondent/District Magistrate-cum-District Collector, Appellate Tribunal under Maintenance of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, in confirming the order passed by the second respondent dated 02.05.2017 quashing the settlement deed dated 08.02.2008 entered by the fourth respondent/Mrs. Kalyani Kulasekaran, in favour of the writ petitioner.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the fourth respondent, mother of the petitioner, after receiving a sum of Rs. 7,00,000/-, had executed a settlement deed dated 08.02.2008 in favour of the petitioner. Since the petitioner's sister, namely, Mrs. Lakshmi, attempted to construct a house in the said property covered under the settlement deed dated 08.02.2008, the relationship got strained with her sister and finally, the petitioner filed a civil suit in O.S. No. 2557 of 2016 on the file of the XV City Civil Court seeking partition of the suit property. The petitioner's mother joining hands with her sister preferred a false complaint under the provisions of the Main