A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High court challenging a legal provision which requires Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs to obtain a probate or Letter of Administration (LoA) from the courts concerned for inheriting properties through a will if it had been executed in Chennai, Mumbai or Kolkata or was related to properties situated in these three cities.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy have issued notice to the Centre as well as the State government on the petition filed by K.K. Subramanian of Sastri Nagar in Chennai. He had urged the court to declare Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925, unconstitutional.
