Allowed

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

Bombay HC21 Jun 2016MPT/154/2015

Case brief

AI extract

What is this about?

This brief order is in Miscellaneous Petition No. 154 of 2015 before the High Court of Bombay. The court disposed of a genuine petition for a legal heirship certificate under Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 for a deceased woman, dispensing with the need for a proclamation.

What did the court decide?

Petition made absolute; Legal Heirship Certificate granted recognizing petitioner and daughter as legal heirs; Proclamation dispensed with.

Nipun Navnit Mehta Vs Subhadra Navnitbhai… — Succession and Inheritance | Bombay HC (2016)

¶1

9-MPT154-15.DOC

¶2

SHEPHALI

¶3

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY TESTAMENTARY AND INTESTATE JURISDICTION MISCELLANEOUS PETITION NO. 154 OF 2015

¶4

Nipun Navnit Mehta…Petitioner
And
Subhadra Navnitbhai Mehta…Deceased

¶5

Mrs. Bina S. Shivhare, for the Petitioner.

¶6

CORAM:G.S. PATEL, J
DATED:21st June 2016

¶7

PC:-

¶8

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

¶9

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.

¶10

Page 1 of 2

¶11

21st June 2016

¶12

9-MPT154-15.DOC

¶13

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

¶14

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.

¶15

5. The petition is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (a), which reads thus:

¶16

“(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.”

¶17

6. All concerned to act on an authenticated copy of this order.

¶18

(G. S. PATEL, J.)

¶19

Page 2 of 2
21st June 2016

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

Case brief

What is this about?

What did the court decide?

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

Case brief

What is this about?

What did the court decide?

What the court decided

A compact analysis

Issues for consideration

Statutes considered

Parties & counsel

Coram

Case details

Similar cases

Shyamala Raghunathan Vs Vatsala Srinivasan

Baldev Meherchand Gupta Vs Ashok Gupta and Amar Brijkishore Gupta Applicant /Beneficiary

Mr.Rajesh Virendra Shah and Others Vs Mr. Samir Pravinlal Shroff and Others

Mr. Vishnu Laranj Kamble Vs Dwarkabai Laranj Kamble (Deceased)

Shashikant Shankar Patole Vs Mangala Bhagwan Kadam (Deceased)

Mashyaka Babu Kunchikorve Vs Babu Kantappa Kunchikorve (Deceased)