JUDGMENT:

This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal by the unsuccessful respondents 2 to

4 under Section 384 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 is directed against the orders dated 15.02.2012 of the learned District Judge, Chittoor passed in S.O.P.No.271 of 2005.

2. I have heard the submissions of the learned counsel for the appellants/respondents 2 to 4 and the learned counsel for the respondents 1 to 3/the petitioners. The 4th respondent herein is the 4th petitioner. The 5th respondent is impleaded being the legal representative of the deceased 1st respondent-D.B.Rajendran. I have perused the material record.

3. For convenience and clarity, the parties in this appeal shall hereinafter be referred to as ‘the petitioners’ and ‘the respondents’ as arrayed in the succession original petition before the Court below.

4. The facts leading to filing of the present appeal may be stated, in brief, as follows:

The petitioners had filed the Succession Original Petition under Section

372 of the Indian Succession Act against the respondents 1 to 4 for issuance of a succession certificate in respect of the petition schedule property, inter alia claiming that the 1st petitioner is the wife of the deceased D.V.Ba