the petitioner's father Govindaraj Naicker. During her life time, she had executed a WILL dated 24.03.1969 bequeathing the property to the petitioner's father. Thereafter, a year from the date of execution of the said Will, she died due to illness. After her death, the property was acquired by the petitioner's father and he had become the absolute owner of the same by virtue of the said WILL dated 24.03.1969 and he had been in possession and enjoyment of the same till his life time. The petitioner's father Govindaraj Naicker had died intestate on 19.08.1989 leaving behind the petitioner as his legal heir to acquire the said property. The Tahisldar, Tambaram had issued the legal heir certificate and thus the petitioner became the absolute owner of the property and has been in enjoyment of the same. Since the petitioner wanted to settle the property in favour of his son Dhanasekaran, a Settlement Deed was executed by the petitioner in favour of his son before the respondent. The respondent also verified all the relevant documents including encumbrance. However, he refused to register the said Settlement Deed on a lame reason that no transaction in the property had been taken place after the year 1937 and so for the want of recent day transaction, the presentation of Settlement Deed was not accepted by the respondent. Hence, the petitioner has approached this Court by filing this writ petition for the above stated relief.
