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Original Petition filed under Section 372 of Indian Succession Act, 1925, under Order XXV Rule 6 of Original Side Rules, praying that a Succession Certificate may be granted to the petitioners with the power to collect the securities and to receive the interest and dividends thereon and negotiate and transfer the securities specified in the schedule.

2. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that Mrs.S.Lakshmi died intestate on 06.11.2007, at her ordinary place of residence, No.1, Peria Appavu Street, Madalampetti, Kumbakonam, Tanjavur District and left property specified in the schedule. The deceased left behind her husband, K.S.Siva Kumar and two daughters, S.Ranjani and S.Kiruthika, who are the petitioners herein and the legal heirs of the deceased.

3. It is further submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the deceased, Mrs.S.Lakshmi, at the time of her death, held 6,751 shares in City Union Bank Ltd., as mentioned in the schedule. A succession certificate is required for the purpose of receiving those shares and the petitioners 1 to 3 together claims to be entitled to equal shares of the estate specified in the schedule. The total val