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Arokyaswamy Marialouiz v. Marialouiz Alias Raju Michael Widower (Deceased)

Bombay HC29 Aug 2024MPT/382/2024

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What is this about?

The Bombay High Court allowed a miscellaneous petition filed by the father and son of a deceased person. The court granted an heirship certificate declaring the petitioners as the sole legal heirs under Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 as the deceased wife and no will were found. The order dispensed with proclamation and expedited the grant.

What did the court decide?

The Legal Heirship Certificate was granted to the Petitioners, declaring them as the legal heirs and legal representatives of the deceased.

Arokyaswamy Marialouiz vs Marialouiz Alias Raju… — Succession and Inheritance | Bombay HC (2024)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY TESTAMENTARY AND INTESTATE JURISDICTION

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MISC PETITION NO. 382 OF 2024

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Arokyaswamy Marialouiz

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Selvanathan Marialouis ...Petitioners Versus

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Marialouiz @ Raju Michael Widower ...Deceased

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Mr. Tushar Agrawal i/by Keshav K. Agrawal for Petitioners.

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ETHAPEDNYANESHWARASHOK Digitally signedby ETHAPEDNYANESHWARASHOKDate: 2024.09.0211:02:28 +0530

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CORAM : N. J. JAMADAR, J. DATE : 29^th AUGUST 2024

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PC.:

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Heard the learned Counsel for the Petitioners.

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This petition is filed for grant of Heirship Certificate under

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Section 2 of the Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827.

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Marialouiz @ Raju Michael Widower (the deceased), was

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the father of the Petitioner Nos. 1 and 2. The deceased passed away on 3^rd October 2011. At the time of his death, he had a fixed place of abode at 300/2385, Motilal Nagar No.-2, M. G. Road, Goregaon West, Mumbai.

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In the petition it is averred that the deceased died intestate

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and despite diligent search, no testamentary writing or Will has

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been found. The deceased has left behind the petitioner Nos. 1 and 2 as the only surviving legal heirs. Maria Theresa, the wife of the deceased and mother of the petitioner Nos.1 and 2, predeceased the deceased, on 24^th May 1996. A copy of death certificate of Maria Theresa is annexed at Exhibit B-1 to the petition. There is no other legal heir. The heirship certificate is required to lay claim over the property described in the Schedule of Property (Exhibit-D).

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I have perused the averments in the petition. The documents annexed to the petition lend support to the claim of the petitioners. The petitioners appear to be the only surviving legal heirs of the deceased. Maria Theresa, the wife of the deceased and mother of the petitioners, has predeceased the deceased. There does not appear to be any impediment in granting the heirship certificate.

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Hence, the following order:-

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ORDER

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(i) Petition stands allowed in terms of prayer clause (b), which reads as under:

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“(b). That the Legal Heirship Certificate may be granted

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to the Petitioners, and they be declared as legal heir and legal representative of the deceased, under the provision of Bombay Regulation Act VIII of 1827.”

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(ii) Proclamation dispensed with.

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(iii) The grant of heirship certificate is expedited.

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(N. J. JAMADAR, J.)

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Arokyaswamy Marialouiz v. Marialouiz Alias Raju Michael Widower (Deceased)

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