Girish Jayant Abhyankar v. Jayant Vishnu Abhyankar
Case brief
What is this about?
Letters of Administration; Indian Succession Act 1925; Hindu Succession Act 1956; testamentary petition; uncontested grant; administration bond dispensed (IA/3674/2024, order dated 21.11.2025); citation and notice to Collector under Rules 397 and 396, Bombay High Court (O.S.) Rules 1980; Rule 382 delay explanation; estate of Jayant Vishnu Abhyankar (died 20-04-2021, Pune); petitioner Girish Jayant Abhyankar (son); grant effective throughout Maharashtra; account to be filed; verification of no cross-petition or caveat before issuance.
What did the court decide?
Letters of Administration granted to the petitioner for the properties left by the deceased and shown in the schedule, in the prescribed format, having effect throughout the State of Maharashtra under the Indian Succession Act, 1925; petitioner to file account as undertaken in the Petitioner's Oath; office to verify absence of any cross-petition or caveat before issuance of the grant.