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This writ petition has been filed by a super senior citizen, seeking a writ of certiorarified mandamus calling for, and quashing an order on the file of the District Collector-cum-Appellate Authority, dated 03.06.2019 passed by the Special Officer, Department of Revenue and Disaster Management, Puducherry holding that he is ineligible to claim protection under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (in short ‘Welfare Act’).

2. I had on 04.03.2022 heard the parties in brief and had crystallised the issue arising in the writ petition as follows:

‘An interesting question has been raised in this writ petition as to the entitlement of a holder of an Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card to the benefits under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The petitioner claims entitlement by virtue of the provisions of Section 7(B) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 pointing out that an OCI card holder is disentitled only to specific rights enumerated under Clauses(a) to (i)

of Section 7(B)(2).

2.Per contra, Mr.C.T.Ramesh, learned Additional Government Pleader appearing for the official respondents/R1 & R2 draws attention to the sam