Digambar Dattaram Rane v. Dattaram Baliram Rane (Deceased)
Case brief
What is this about?
Letters of Administration; Indian Succession Act, 1925; Hindu Succession Act, 1956; testamentary petition; Bombay High Court Testamentary Department; uncontested petition; citation under Rule 397 BHC (O.S.) Rules 1980; notice to Collector Rule 396; surety bond exemption; TP No. 2918/2023; Dattaram Baliram Rane; death 28-09-2007 Mumbai; sons and daughters as legal heirs; account as per Petitioner's Oath.
What did the court decide?
Petition allowed; Letters of Administration granted to the petitioners 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. Petitioners to file an account as undertaken in the Petitioner's Oath within the stipulated period; before issuance of the grant, the office to verify that no cross-petition is pending or caveat resisting the petition is filed.