K. JAGANNATLIA SHETTY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners have tiled this Application under Section 247 of the Indian succession Act, 1925, for appointment of an Administrator pending disposal of the main proceedings touching the validity of the Will and six Codicils of the deceased suresh C. Mahindra for grant of Letters of Administration of the Will and six codicils annexed with, such Administrator being delegated with all the power and rights of general administration other than the rights of distributing such assets of the deceased subject to the immediate and absolute control of this Court.

( 2 ) IN support of the application 1st petitioner has filed an affidavit where in shehas averred that she together with and on behalf of her two minor children have filed a petition for grant of Letters of Administration with the Will and six Codicils. The estate oflate Suresh C. Mahindra is very large and of considerable value and the bulk of it is in the State of Karnataka, but lesser and somewhat more considerable assets in the estate arc situated in the State of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.

( 3 ) IT is averred that the 1st respondent has contended against the Will and six Codicils as being bogus.

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