The Madras High Court has ruled that, the biological relatives of a person who had got adopted, cannot be considered as his legal heirs in order to stake a claim over the properties that he had inherited from the adoptive family.
Adoptions has been managed as per the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act of 1956.
All ties with the biological family would get severed on the day when a person gets adopted by another family.
Therefore, his/her biological relatives could not seek legal heirship certificate after his/her death.