(15) … If Girish had initiated proceedings for revocation of the grant and had insisted on the will being proved in his presence, the courts would have had no difficulty in having all the necessary evidence before it because the chief person who had played the most leading part in the execution of the will, in its registration and in its being admitted to probate, viz., Anil Nath Basu, was then alive and could have been examined. But for reasons not made clear in these proceedings Girish did not think it worth his while to take any steps in court to 36 282 challenge the will or the grant. The estate was worth anything between five to forty lakhs, perhaps nearer five lakhs than forty lakhs. Girish was a mere pensioner belonging to a middle class family. Either he did not think it worth his while to embark on a litigation with all its uncertainties or he had not the wherewithal to do so. The record as it stands does not satisfactorily explain the reasons why Girish refrained from making any attempts to get this large estate. If the will was not genuine or valid, Girish would take the reversionary estate at once because the testator's widow died in 1921 and there was no other impediment in his way, except to get rid of the will. If, on the other hand, the will was genuine- and valid, even then he would stand to gain all the interest which had been bequeathed in favour of Charu. The fact that Girish did not take advantage of his position as the nearest reversioner as on partial intestacy goes a long way to support the great probability of the will being valid and genuine, especially as it had been probated and because the appellant in his long petition for revoking the grant has not made the least suggestion casting any doubt on the genuineness and validity of the will. …”
