petitioner are forged, lodged a criminal complaint on 18.06.2015 inter alia under Section 156 of the 'Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973' ('Cr.P.C.' for brevity). This is vide criminal case being Cr.M.P.No.2729 of 2015 on the file of the Hon'ble Jurisdictional Magistrate's Court ie., JM Court No.I, Nagercoil. It is important to note that this criminal complaint pertains only to two (2) documents and those two (2) documents are sale deeds in favour of writ petitioner's father dated 05.03.1983 registered as Document No.250/1983 on the file of the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar's Office and settlement deed dated 03.07.2007 registered as Document No.2438/2007 on the file of the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar's Office wherein writ petitioner's father has made a settlement in favour of writ petitioner on the strength of 05.03.1983 sale deed. To be noted, the complaint of fraud is only with regard to one document namely settlement deed dated 03.07.2007, whereas 1983 sale deed is the title deed of the settlor (father of writ petitioner). While these two (2) are the documents which form subject matter of criminal case, writ petitioner has now sought return of remaining seven (7) documents pursuant to aforementioned settlement memo before the jurisdictional Lok Adalat dated 25.11.2016 and subsequent closure report dated 28.03.2017. Those seven (7) documents as follows:
