Sneha Jaiprakash Kamath v. Vasudev Kamath Alias Vasudeva Ananth Kamath (Deceased)

Bombay HC2 Dec 2025TP/1710/2024

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What is this about?

Succession Certificate extension for additionally traced securities of deceased Vasudeo Ananat Kamath; amendment of Testamentary Petition TP/1710/2024 per Exhibit “C” to Affidavit dated 13.11.2025; twelve weeks to amend and re-upload on Bombay High Court portal; re-verification dispensed with; Administration Bond not required (sole surviving legal heir); maximum court fees Rs.75,000/- paid; Bombay High Court Company Registrar / Testamentary Registrar Mrs. Kavita Y. Ambekar; order dated 02.12.2025.

What did the court decide?

Extension of the Succession Certificate to cover the additional securities listed at Exhibit “C” to the Affidavit dated 13.11.2025, upon amendment of the petition Schedule and re-upload of the amended petition; re-verification dispensed with; Administration Bond not required. ¶¶9

Sneha Jaiprakash Kamath vs Vasudev Kamath Alias Vasudeva Ananth Kamath (Deceased) — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Succession Certificate should be extended to cover additional securities traced in the name of the deceased after the original grant, by way of amendment of the petition. +2 more

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Court's answer

On uploading of the amended petition, the office is to issue extension of grant for the Succession Certificate, after the amendment is carried out in the Schedule as per Exhibit “C” annexed to the Affidavit dated 13.11.2025.

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Ratio / Principle

The petitioner is to carry out the amendment within twelve weeks from the date of uploading of this order.

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Key takeaways

The petitioner is to re-upload the amended petition on the official portal of the Bombay High Court.ratio¶¶7
Re-verification of the amended petition is dispensed with.ratio¶¶7
No Administration Bond is required to be filed, the petitioner being the sole surviving legal heir as per para No. 4 of the petition; the Registrar proceeded on this submission (“In view thereof”) rather than making an independent adjudication.ratio

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Direction order of the Company Registrar / Testamentary Registrar (Mrs. Kavita Y. Ambekar), Bombay High Court, in Testamentary Petition TP/1710/2024 (E-filing). The petitioner, to whom a Succession Certificate in respect of the securities of the deceased Vasudeo Ananat Kamath had been granted on 12.08.2024, sought extension of the grant after tracing further securities standing in the deceased's name, listed at Exhibit “C” to an Affidavit dated 13.11.2025. The Registrar permitted amendment of the petition within twelve weeks of uploading of the order, directed re-upload of the amended petition on the Bombay High Court portal, dispensed with re-verification, and recorded that no Administration Bond was required as the petitioner is the sole surviving legal heir (per para 4 of the petition), the maximum court fees of Rs.75,000/- having already been paid. On uploading of the amended petition, the office is to issue the extension of grant for the Succession Certificate.

Sneha Jaiprakash Kamath v. Vasudev Kamath Alias Vasudeva Ananth Kamath (Deceased)

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