Nipun Navnit Mehta v. Subhadra Navnitbhai Mehta....Deceased.

9-MPT154-15.DOC SHEPHALI

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

TESTAMENTARY AND INTESTATE JURISDICTION MISCELLANEOUS PETITION NO. 154 OF 2015 Nipun Navnit Mehta

...Petitioner

And Subhadra Navnitbhai Mehta ...Deceased Mrs. Bina S. Shivhare, for the Petitioner.

CORAM: G.S. PATEL, J DATED:

21st June 2016 PC:- 1.

The Petition was accepted and proclamation has been dispensed with by an order dated 4th December 2015. 2.

The Petitioner seeks a Legal Heirship Certificate under Section 2 of Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 in respect of one Subhadra Navnitbhai Mehta, who is said to have died intestate in Mumbai, where she was ordinarily resident, on 16th October 2015. A copy of her death certificate is annexed. The deceased was survived by a son, the Petitioner abovenamed, and a married daughter. The married daughter, Smita Shailesh Bhansali, has consented.

21st June 2016

9-MPT154-15.DOC 3.

The Legal Heirship Certificate is required in relation to certain properties at Tamil Nadu and for SLP (Civil) No. 23304 of 2013.

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 in terms of prayer clause (a), which reads thus:

"(a) that legal heirship certificate thereby certifying the Petitioner 1) Nipun Navnit Mehta and 2) Smita Shailesh Bhansali (married daughter) be recognized legal heirs and representative of the deceased be granted to the Petitioner."

6.

All concerned to act on an authenticated copy of this order. (G. S. PATEL, J.) 21st June 2016