THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.9763 of 2010 Dated:27.04.2010 Between: Dommeti Chellayamma …Petitioner And The Tahsildar, Malikipuram Mandal, Malikipuram, East Godavari District, And another. ...Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.9763 of 2010 ORDER: Kadali Kasi Naga Sri Lakshmi Vara Prasad and Kadali Vijayalakshmi were murdered in a lodge in Secunderabad on 20.08.2009. Kadali Kasi Naga Sri Lakshmi Vara Prasad statedly accumulated to considerable wealth while working in India as well as Dubai Petroleum Company. The petitioner is his mother-in- law. She approached the first respondent claiming succession certificate. First respondent rejected her request by the following endorsement. Ref.C/460/09, Dt.23.02.2010 Office of the Tahsildar, Malikipuram ENDORSEMENT At the request of your application, I enquired into the matter and issued the following endorsement. According to the Sec.15 of the Hindu Succession Act for any femaly Hindu the sons and daughters and husband are legal heirs. If they are not alive the legal heirs of the husband are heirs to the female under Sec.15(b) of Hindu Succession Act. Therefore, the mother-in-law of your daughter Vijayalakshmi, by name Kadali Satyavathi is the only legal heir to her husband Kadali Kasi Naga Srilakshmi Vara Prasad, Son Kethan and daughter Kavitha are also died along with your daughter. Therefore, you are not the legal heir to your daughter Kadali Vijayalakshmi. Hence, your application is rejected. Tahsildar, Malikipuram. The Writ Petition is filed challenging the jurisdiction of the first respondent to declare the second respondent as legal heir or successor of Kadali Kasi Naga Sri Lakshmi Vara Prasad. The endorsement cannot be treated as a succession certificate or the legal heir certificate. It is an endorsement rejecting the application of the petitioner. If there is any dispute with regard to the property left behind the daughter and son-in-law of the petitioner, the remedy is to approach the civil Court and obtain succession certificate under Section 371 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925. The Writ Petition with the above observations is dismissed. ____________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 27.04.2010 vs