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2009 Supreme(Cal) 496

PRASENJIT MANDAL, BHASKAR BHATTACHARYA
Paresh Chandra Majhi – Appellant
Versus
Biswanath Majhi – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appearing Parties:Pinaki Ranjan Mitra, Thakurdas Roy Chowdhury, Rama Ghosh Dastidar, Sudhish Dasgupta, S.P. Roy Chowdhury, Jiban Ratan Chatterjee, Advocates.

Judgment :

BHATTACHARYA, J

(1) This first appeal is at the instance of the applicants in a proceeding for revocation of grant of a Probate and is directed against order dated 23rd December, 2004 passed by the Additional District Judge, Fast Track Court-Ill, Alipore in O.S. No.2 of 2004 thereby rejecting the proceeding by holding that the petition for revocation was not maintainable.

(2) Being dissatisfied, the applicants have come up with the present appeal.

(3) The appellants, the heirs and legal representatives of one Atul Krishna Majhi, since deceased, filed an application for revocation of the Probate granted in Original Suit No. 96 of 1956 thereby giving rise to Revocation Case No.49 of 1982 on the allegation that before the grant of Probate, no citation was issued to the predecessor-in-interest of the appellants and that the alleged compromise was outcome of fraud, inasmuch as, their predecessor, namely, Atul Krishna Majhi, never put his signature on the alleged compromise petition. It was further contended that the testator had no testamentary capacity to execute the Will in question at the relevant point of time when he was more than 106 years old. According to the appellant


















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