The fact that Chander Singh died two days after the execution of the will, that the will is executed on an ordinary paper, the will is unregistered, the will was not scribed by a regular deed writer, the will was executed at the residence of the testator, are suspicious circumstances and may in a given case be singularly or cumulatively sufficient to discard a will. In the present case, however, these circumstances pale into insignificance, as the appellant has admitted that the will bears her thumb impression. Though she asserted that when she visited her father, a few days before he passed away, her brothers obtained her thumb impression on blank papers, this plea remains unsubstantiated. This plea appears to be an after thought coined by the appellant to explain an inconvenient fact. The thumb impression of the appellant goes a long way in proving the will and dispelling the suspicious circumstances. This apart Braham Raj, the attesting witness has deposed that the appellant was present at the execution of the will and appended her thumb impression.
