Bhola Singh v. Angrej Singh and Others
Rival unregistered Wills – suspicious circumstances
Case brief
What is this about?
Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh; RSA-1292-2021 (O&M); decided 07.07.2025 by Justice Deepak Gupta (single-Judge bench); appellant-defendant Bhola Singh (Adv. Preetwinder Singh Dhaliwal) versus respondents-plaintiffs Angrej Singh and Balwinder Singh (plaintiff No.2); estate of Mal Singh (died 14.04.2015 at village Rahiewal; maternal uncle of plaintiff No.2, paternal uncle of defendant); rival unregistered Wills dated 28.12.2014 (in favour of defendant) and 30.03.2015 (in favour of plaintiffs; Ex.P1); attesting witnesses Gurcharan Singh and Surjit Singh; deed-writer Pardeep Kumar; mutation No.7270; suspicious circumstances raised - non-reference to earlier Will and testator's death 15 days after execution; sound disposing state of mind; trial court decree 08.02.2019 and First Appellate Court dismissal 04.12.2019 upheld; second appeal dismissed; not reportable.
What did the court decide?
None to the appellant; the appeal is dismissed and the concurrent findings decreeing the suit in favour of the plaintiffs stand.