2024:MHC:537 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS Reserved on : 27.09.2023 Pronounced on : 22.12.2023 CORAM: JUSTICE N.SESHASAYEE W.P. No.26776 of 2023 Kalyani ... Petitioner Vs.

1.The District Collector Chennai.

2.The Tahsildar Pallavaram Taluk Office Chennai. ... Respondents PRAYER: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records and quash the order dated 28.02.2020, passed by the Tahsildar, Pallavaram Taluk Office in Proceedings No.O.M.97/2020/A5, and consequently direct the second respondent to issue legal heir certificate / relationship certificate of late TT.Thanka, identifying the petitioner and her sister Santha as her legal heirs.

For Petitioner : Mr.Sakthi Narayanan For Respondents : Mr.M.Bindran Additional Government Pleader

ORDER

1.1 The issue here relates to issuance of legal heir certificate issued on 28.02.2010, which was prior to the issuance of G.O.Ms No.478. The case of the petitioner is that she had three sisters namely Ammini, Thanka and Kalyani. Of whom, both Ammini and Thanka have remained spinsters, and they died on 13.04.2017 and 16.11.2005 respectively. According to the petitio