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1998 Supreme(Del) 343

MANMOHAN SARIN
PADMA BEDI – Appellant
Versus
JOGINDER SINGH – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Birender Singh, Devinder Chaudhary, Girdhar Govind

Manmohan Sarin, J.

( 1 ) APPELLANT is aggrieved by the judgment of the learned additional District Judge, Delhi, dated 31-1-1997, granting probate in respect of the Will dated 15-1-1986 of the deceased Shri Gainda Singh Bedi, with a copy of the Will annexed thereto, which entitled respondent No. 1, Shri Joginder Singh Bedi, the executor under the Will, to administer the estate of the deceased.

( 2 ) THE deceased testator, Shri Gainda Singh Bedi, was a member of the Higher Judicial Service and retired as District and Sessions Judge, Hissar, in the year 1996. Appellant is the semi literate widow of the deceased. Appellant assails the impugned judgment primarily on the ground that the bequest made in the said Will was unnatural, inasmuch as, it made no provision for the residence of the appellant, who was having no source of income and the deceased bequeathed the only house he possessed to his sons, viz. respondents 1 and 2. Appellant urges that there was no evidence of any strained or embittered relations between the deceased testator and the appellant and there was no conceivable cause for exclusion of the appellant from inheritance of the house, which was the prime asset of the dec

















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