Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan agreed with advocate Naveen Kumar Murthi that all ties with the biological family would get severed on the day when a person gets adopted by another family and therefore, his/her biological relatives could not seek legal heirship certificate after his/her death. The orders were passed while allowing a writ petition filed by V. Sakthivel, of Modakurichi, in Erode district. The petitioner had stated that his paternal grandfather Sengota Gounder had two sons S. Ramasamy and S. Varanavasi and one daughter named S. Lakshmi. Therefore, the writ petitioner, his brother and their two nieces born to Lakshmi became his class II legal heirs and accordingly a legal heirship certificate was issued to four of them by the Modakurichi Tahsildar on November 19, 2020. Hence, the litigant had approached the High Court with the present petition in 2021.

Source: The Hindu June 20, 2024 03:48 UTC