JUDGMENT

Writ petition is filed with the following reliefs:

a) Call for the records of the case leading to Exts.P1 to P4 and set aside the same by the issue of an appropriate writ in the nature of certiorari or other appropriate writ, direction or order;

b) Grant such other orders as may be deemed necessary in the facts and circumstances of this case and in the interests of justice;

2. Petitioner is a local authority which has suffered a decree for damages and mandatory injunction passed in O.S.No.258/03 by the learned Principal Munsiff, Kasargode. Pending execution of the decree, the decree holder passed away. His legal heirs, who are the respondents herein moved an application for substitution. That application was objected to by the petitioners contending that all legal heirs have not been shown in their petition. In the light of the objection so canvassed, another application was moved by the respondents to implead one more person for substitution in the place of the decree holder. That application was also objected to by the petitioner/judgment debtor.

3. Among other contentions production of a succession certificate as mandated under the Indian Succession Act was also canvassed t