APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUE OF A LEGAL HEIR CERTIFICATE
HOW THIS PACK IS FILED, AND WHERE THE COURT-FEE STAMP GOES. The office you file at keeps its own printed application form, and the counter expects that sheet. In Punjab the application goes in on the office's own form, with the court-fee stamp of the prescribed denomination affixed on that form. In Chandigarh the e-Sampark checklist requires the application on legal paper — the green sheet — with a court fee of Rs 1.25 affixed on it, and a typed sheet that is not the green legal paper is refused at the window. This pack is therefore drafted to be transcribed onto the office's form, or annexed to that form as the detailed statement in support of it. It does not replace the form. Annexures A and B go in as they stand: Annexure A engrossed on its own non-judicial stamp paper or e-Stamp certificate and sworn, Annexure B on plain paper and signed. Where the counter is content to take this pack itself as the application, affix the court-fee stamp in the space marked immediately below; otherwise leave that space blank and affix the stamp on the office's form.
[ AFFIX COURT-FEE STAMP HERE — in Punjab, the fixed denomination under Schedule II of the Court Fees Act, 1870 as in force in Punjab, bought from the licensed stamp vendor at the tehsil complex; in Chandigarh, Rs 1.25. ]
To,
The Tehsildar,
Office of the Tehsildar, Tehsil Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali), Mini Secretariat, Sector 76, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) 160055, Punjab
Sir / Madam,
Subject: Application for the issue of a Legal Heir Certificate in respect of the late Gurcharan Singh, who died on 1 April 2026.
- THE APPLICANT
I, Harpreet Kaur, aged 44 years and therefore a major competent to make this application and to swear the affidavit at Annexure A, son of Late S. Gurcharan Singh, residing at House No. 214, Phase 3B2, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) 160059, Punjab, holding Aadhaar No. XXXX XXXX 1234 and contactable on +91 XXXXX XXXXX, respectfully submit this application. I am the son of the deceased named in paragraph 2 below, and I am one of the legal heirs listed in Schedule I to this application.
My email address for notices in this matter is harpreet.kaur@example.com.
- THE DECEASED
(a) Name: Gurcharan Singh, son of Late S. Bachan Singh.
(b) The deceased professed the Hindu faith.
(c) Last residential address: House No. 214, Phase 3B2, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) 160059, Punjab.
(d) Date of death: 1 April 2026. Place of death: Civil Hospital, Phase 6, Mohali.
(e) The death stands registered under Death Certificate No. D-2025-MOH-014782 dated 2 April 2026, issued by Registrar of Births and Deaths, Municipal Corporation, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar. A copy is enclosed and the original is produced with this application for verification.
(f) Ration card / family card No. PB-03-014-0098765 stands in the name of the deceased or of the family of the deceased, and a copy is enclosed.
- JURISDICTION OF THIS OFFICE, AND THE SERVICE APPLIED FOR
(a) The address at paragraph 2(c) above lies within the territorial jurisdiction of this office in the State of Punjab, and this application is made under the Punjab Transparency and Accountability in Delivery of Public Services Act, 2018.
(b) I request that this application be registered, that an acknowledgement bearing a reference number and the date of receipt be issued to me, and that the certificate be delivered within the time limit notified for this service.
- PERSONAL LAW AND TESTAMENTARY POSITION
(a) The deceased having professed the Hindu faith, succession to the estate of the deceased is governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
(b) The deceased died intestate, that is, without leaving any Will.
- THE LEGAL HEIRS
(a) The legal heirs of the deceased are 4 in number, including myself. Their names, relationships to the deceased, ages, marital status and addresses are set out in Schedule I to this application. To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the deceased left no legal heir other than the persons named in Schedule I.
(b) No person entitled to succeed under the personal law stated in paragraph 4(a) has been omitted from Schedule I. In particular, every daughter of the deceased has been named, whether married or unmarried; and where the deceased was a Hindu, I am aware that a daughter is a coparcener in her own right by birth under section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 as amended with effect from 9 September 2005, and that her right does not depend on whether her father was living on that date.
(c) Annexure B to this application is the no-objection declaration of the legal heirs other than the applicant. Where the applicant is the sole legal heir of the deceased, there are no other heirs to sign it, no Annexure B is enclosed and none is required.
Minor heirs. The following legal heirs are minors, and their natural guardian is as stated: Ekamjot Singh, son of the late Manjit Singh, born 12 March 2016, aged 9 years, whose natural guardian is his mother Navneet Kaur.. I am aware that, where the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 applies, a natural guardian cannot dispose of a minor's interest in immovable property without the previous permission of the court under section 8 of that Act, that a disposal without such permission is voidable at the instance of the minor, and that section 8 does not extend to a Hindu minor's undivided interest in joint family property, which falls outside that section by force of section 12 and is governed instead by the law relating to the powers of the manager of the joint family. Nothing in the certificate applied for authorises any dealing with the share of a minor.
Heirs claiming through a predeceased child. The following children of the deceased died in the lifetime of the deceased, and the persons named in Schedule I claim through them: Manjit Singh, son, died on 3 June 2023, leaving his widow Navneet Kaur and his minor son Ekamjot Singh, both named in Schedule I..
- PURPOSE OF THE CERTIFICATE
(a) The certificate is required for the transfer of a plot, house, booth or flat allotted by a development authority constituted under the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act, 1995, on the intestate death of the allottee.