JUDGMENT :

JAYANT BANERJI, J.

1. The aforesaid petition has been filed with the following prayer:

“(i) issue any order or direction to the Court of Addl. District Judge-16, Kanpur Nagar to decide the letter of Administration Case No. 154/70/2013 (Dr. A.M. Chaudhary and Others vs. State of U.P. and Others) finally, within the time fixed by this Hon'ble Court.

(ii) issue any other suitable order or direction which the Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper under the facts and circumstances of the case.

(iii) to award costs of the petition to the petitioners.”

2. Annexure-3 to the petition is a certified copy of a petition for letters of administration under Section 278 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 [Succession Act] filed by the three petitioners seeking grant of letters of administration of a Will dated 13.12.1997 executed by Shri Rajendra Shankar Chaudhary and the Will dated 08.04.1999 of Smt. Sarla Chaudhary, which Wills are stated to be attached to that petition. That petition came to be numbered as Letter of Administration Case No. 154/70 of 2013.

3. It is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the aforestated petition for grant of letters of administration is pen