JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 384 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 against the Decree and Judgment passed by the Principal District Judge, Vellore in O.P.No. 2 of 2011 dated 08.06.2017 in so far as the award on this appellant.)

The first to sixth respondents in Succession O.P.No. 2 of 2011 on the file of the Principal District Court, Vellore, are the appellants herein. They are aggrieved by the grant of succession certificate to the first respondent herein/petitioner in Succession O.P.No. 2 of 2011, with respect to the claims relating to fixed deposits made by Kasinatha Mudaliar in the second to seventh respondents/Banks.

2. The first respondent Devamirtham had filed Succession O.P.No. 2 of 2011 under Section 372 of Indian Succession Act claiming right and entitlement to the fixed deposits made by late Kasinatha Mudaliar and she claimed such entitlement on the ground that she was a lawfully wedded wife of late Kasinatha Mudaliar.

3. This claim has been resisted by the appellants herein, who disputed her marital relationship with Kasinatha Mudaliar. The appellants are brothers, sisters of Kasinatha Mudaliar and their children.      4. By Judgment dat