The Madras High Court has dismissed a writ appeal preferred by M.A.M. Ramaswamy Chettiar of Chettinad Charitable Trust challenging a single judge’s refusal to quash a legal heirship certificate issued by a tahsildar to M.A.M.R. Muthiah in his capacity as the adopted son of Ramaswamy Chettiar.
First Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice T. Raja and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy confirmed the judgement passed by Justice N. Sathish Kumar on October 13, 2022 and held that the trust, being a stranger to the family, could not now question the adoption that had taken place way back in 1996.
The Bench said, it was in complete agreement with the submission of Senior Counsel M.S. Krishnan and the proposition laid down by the Karnataka High Court in a different case that no one else but for the biological parents, adoptive parents or the adopted children could question the validity of the adoption.
