S.N.Jha, J.

1. This is a petition under section 278 of the Indian Succession Act (in short the Act) for grant of Letters of Administration of the will of Smt. Kamleshwari Devi, resident of Boring Canal Road, Patna. The petition was earlier registered as Testamentary Case No. 3 of 1991. After the Objector entered caveat it was converted into a suit and reregistered as Testamentary Suit No. 3 of 1996.

2. The case of the petitioners, who are the grand sons of Smt. Kamleshwari Devi (hereinafter called the testatrix) and beneficiaries of the disposition, is that the testatrix was the absolute owner of land bearing plot nos. 172, 173, 174, 175 of Khata nos. 115/588 and 14 of village Dujra, Thana Digha (now known as Boring Canal Road within Buddha Cofony Police Station, Patna town), purchased by her from her streedhan on 3.6.53. After the purchase she got her name mutated in the revenue records. From her savings and streedhan she constructed a double storied house which was numbered as holding no. 494/414 B in the municipal records. She paid land revenue and municipal taxes to the State of Bihar and the Patna Municipal Corporation. On 22.3.86 she executed her last will at her afor