Abdul Azam Kadar Shaikh And Anr. v. Gulabjan Kadar Shaikh (Deceased)
Case brief
What is this about?
Letters of Administration; testamentary petition; Indian Succession Act 1925; Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937 (Act 26 of 1937); Bombay High Court (O.S.) Rules 1980 Rules 382, 396, 397(1) and (4); uncontested probate-type grant; citation and Collector notice; administration bond Form No. 118; legal heir consent affidavit; deceased Gulabjan Kadar Shaikh died 16-08-2015 Mumbai; petitioners Abdul Azam Kadar Shaikh and Salim Kadar Shaikh; advocate Devendra Nawadkar; officer P. A. Jagdale OSD Testamentary Department; grant effective throughout Maharashtra; 70.TP/743/2025; decided 02nd February 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 under 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.