Aparna Arun Mayekar v. Late Arun Pandurang Mayekar
Case brief
What is this about?
Letters of Administration; Indian Succession Act 1925; Hindu Succession Act 1956; widow as applicant; uncontended/uncontested testamentary petition; Bombay High Court (O.S.) Rules 1980 Rules 396, 397(1)(4), 382; administration bond form No. 118; citation and Collector's notice; consent affidavits of legal heirs; grant effective throughout Maharashtra; Testamentary Department; Officer on Special Duty P. A. Jagdale; deceased died 23-04-2021 at Mumbai.
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 provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1925; petitioner directed 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.