Sundari Ganeshan W/o Ganeshan v. Ganeshan Shanmugam alias Shanumugam Ganesan alias Ganeshan Shanmugam (Deceased)
Case brief
What is this about?
Legal Heirship Certificate; Section 2 Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827; intestate succession; Hindu Succession Act 1956 Class I heirs; widow, daughter, son certified as sole heirs; consent affidavits by co-heirs; no competing probate/succession petition; proclamation dispensed with; Bombay High Court Testamentary and Intestate Jurisdiction; Miscellaneous Petition 212 of 2025; Arif S. Doctor J.; deceased Ganeshan Shanmugam alias Shanumugam Ganesan; petitioner Sundari Ganeshan; advocate Prabhu Velar.
What did the court decide?
Legal Heirship Certificate under Section 2 of Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 in terms of prayer clause (a), certifying (1) Sundari Ganeshan (widow), (2) G. Esai Malini Ganeshan (daughter) and (3) G. Dinesh Kumar Ganeshan (son) as the only Class I legal heirs of the deceased; Registry to issue the certificate in the standard format; issuance of proclamation dispensed with.