Mohit Sanjay Mehta v. Sanjay B Mehta alias Sanjay Bhupatrai Mehta
Case brief
What is this about?
Letters of Administration; Indian Succession Act 1925; Hindu Succession Act 1956; testamentary petition; Bombay High Court Testamentary Department; deceased Sanjay B. Mehta alias Sanjay Bhupatrai Mehta; petitioner Mohit Sanjay Mehta; advocate Vitthal Sankpal; uncontested petition; citation Rule 397; Collector notice Rule 396; Rule 382 delay; administration bond Form No. 118; heirs' consent affidavits; grant effective State of Maharashtra; decision dated 11 March 2026.
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 as per the Indian Succession Act, 1925; petitioner directed to file an account as undertaken in the Petitioner's Oath within the stipulated period; office to verify, before issuance of the grant, that no cross-petition is pending and no caveat resisting the petition is filed.