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According to the petitioner, his parents viz., Ahilambal and Ponnusamy died on 17.02.2006 and 06.12.2010 respectively. The petitioner has seven siblings viz., (i)Viswanathan (ii)Rajalingam (iii)Navaneetham (iv)Ananthakrishnan (v)Ranganathan (vi)Nagalakshmi and (vii)Saraswathi. His elder brother Viswanathan died on 10.09.1985 as a bachelor; another brother Ananthakrishnan, after obtaining divorce from his wife Prema, died on 10.12.2016; elder sister Navaneetham died on 14.03.2020 and her husband mohanraj predeceased her. Subsequently, the petitioner made an application on 02.02.2021 enclosing all the required documents seeking issuance of legal heir certificate of his deceased sister Navaneetham to the effect that he and the remaining siblings viz., Rajalingam, Ranganathan, Nagalakshmi and Saraswathi are the second class legal heir of the deceased. However, till date, no action was taken on the same. Therefore, he has come up with this writ petition for a mandamus seeking appropriate direction to the respondent in this regard.

2.The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that though the petitioner furnished all the necessary documents along with his application seekin