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2017 Supreme(Cal) 736

SANJIB BANERJEE, SIDDHARTHA CHATTOPADHYAY
Yash Vardhan Mall – Appellant
Versus
Tejash Doshi – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. S.P. Sarkar, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Surojit N. Mitra, Sr. Advocate, Mr. D.N. Sharma, Mr. D.K. Jain, Mr. Asim Chattopadhyay and Mr. Subrata Das, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Mr. Ratnanko Banerji, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Nirmalya Dasgupta and Ms. Urmila Chakaraborty, Advocates.

JUDGMENT :

SANJIB BANERJEE, J.

1. The appeal arises out of proceedings for grant of a probate. By the order impugned dated June 28, 2017, the caveat lodged by the appellant has been discharged on the twin grounds that the appellant had no caveat able interest and that the affidavit in support of the caveat did not disclose any legal ground of objection to the grant of probate.

2. The facts are not much in dispute and have been succinctly narrated in the order impugned. The appellant asserts his right to lodge and maintain a caveat as being the stand-by executor of a previous Will of the testator. In addition, the appellant refers to his status as a co-trustee in respect of the Trust set up by the previous Will. The first legal proposition canvassed by the appellant is that once a rival Will is cited, a person nominated as an executor (even by default) in such Will would always have a right to object to the grant of probate of another Will. The same legal right is asserted qua the status of the appellant as a trustee of the Trust set up by the previous Will in relation to the probate sought of an alleged later Will.

3. Testator Shrutika Doshi died at age 35 on May 26, 2013. The responde



















































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