JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Certiorarified mandamus calling for the records pertaining to the impugned proceedings of the first respondent dated 28.06.2017 in Na.Ka.No.A2/3229/17 and quash the same and consequently direct the first respondent to issue legal heirship certificate declaring the petitioners as legal heirs of their sister late Dr. M.V.Supriya.)

This writ petition is filed challenging the order of rejection dated 28.06.2017 passed by the first respondent, rejecting the request of the petitioners for issuance of legal heir certificate on the ground that they are not Class I legal heir but Class II legal heir of the deceased Dr. M.V. Supriya.

2. According to the petitioners, they are the sisters of the deceased Dr.M.V. Supriya who died as a spinster. It is stated that the petitioners father P.T.G. Menon, who was employed as Assistant Collector of Customs died in the year 2003 and their mother also died in the year 2014. As the deceased Dr.M.V. Supriya died as a spinster, the petitioners claim that they are the legal heirs entitled to succeed her estate. It is stated that Dr. M.V.Supriya was employed as a