JUDGMENT

This writ petition is filed, seeking a direction to the Sub Registrar Mattanur, to register a deed of partition submitted for registration by the petitioner.

2. The petitioner is one of the legal heirs of late Sri.Keshavanunny Nair, who died on 22.03.1998. At the time of his death, his wife and 7 children, including the petitioner were alive and they were his legal heirs. Thereafter, the mother of the petitioner and two of the petitioner’s siblings passed away. Sri Keshavanunny Nair died intestate and at the time of his death, he was in possession of six items of property. The petitioner and other legal heirs of Late Sri. Keshavanunny Nair, then decided to partition the afore properties, which were in the name of their father. Accordingly, they executed a partition deed among themselves and prepared a draft deed for registration. When they approached the Sub Registrar to register the partition deed, he refused to register the document, by stating that, there