HC: If adoption is proven, lack of deed need not affect legal heir cert issuance

Ruling made while hearing plea of woman whose application was binned over inadequate documents

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai

The Madras High Court has ruled that legal heir certificates can be issued to adopted children even without the adoption deed if the other proofs to substantiate the claim are available.

The ruling was given by Justice N Anand Venkatesh recently while directing the authorities concerned to issue a legal heir certificate to a woman - C Nithya, an adopted daughter - whose application for it was rejected on the grounds of lack of adequate substantiating documents.