CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.I.ARUN ORAL ORDER (PER: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.I.ARUN)

The brother of the petitioner was appointed as a kazi under the provisions of Section 2 of the Kazi’s Act , 1880 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’ for short). His term was terminated. That led to filing of writ petition by the brother of petitioner and a direction was issued to the State to consider his request. In the meanwhile, the brother of petitioner died in the year 2014. On the ground that petitioner accompanied his deceased brother while he was discharging his duties as a kazi and in fact his brother is to delegate some of the works to the petitioner and the petitioner is very familiar with the work of kazi and he is a religious and a prominent person amongst Muslim community in his area and that the son and wife of his deceased brother have no objection for the petitioner to be appointed as a kazi, the petitioner made a request to the respondents to appoint him as a kazi. However, he has not bee