Sunita Satish Pai v. Satish Jaywant Pai......Deceased.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

TESTAMENTARY AND INTESTATE JURISDICTION MISCELLANEOUS PETITION NO. 104 OF 2015 Sunita Satish Pai

...Petitioner

And Satish Jaywant Pai ...Deceased Mr. A. Samant, for the Petitioner.

CORAM: G.S. PATEL, J DATED:

9th October 2015 PC:- 1.

The Petitioner seeks a legal heirship certificate under Section 2 of Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 in respect of one Satish Jaywant Pai, who is said to have died intestate on 15th December 2013 in Mumbai, where he was ordinarily resident. A copy of his death certificate is annexed.

2.

The deceased was survived by his widow, daughter and a son. Both the daughter and the son have consented. The widow is the Petitioner. For that reason, a proclamation was dispensed with on 7th October 2015. The names of the legal heirs and next to kin are set out in paragraph 4 of the petition.

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The deceased was a medical practitioner. The Legal Heirship Certificate is required for the purpose of filing Income Tax Returns. Hence the urgency.

4.

No other petition for a Heirship Certificate, Succession Certificate, Probate or Letters of Administration with or without Will annexed has been filed. There is no impediment to the grant of relief.

5.

The petition is made absolute. A legal heirship certificate will be issued in the names of the persons mentioned below paragraph 4 of the petition, namely, Smt. Sunita Satish Pai, Rashmee Pai Seth, Ajay Satish Pai.

6.

Certified Copy expedited.

7.

All concerned to act on an authenticated copy of this order. (G. S. PATEL, J.) CERTIFICATE "Certified to be true and correct copy of the ori ginal signed Judgment/Order.

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