1. This is a petition under Secs. 218, 279 and 300 of the Indian Succession Act, (hereinafter called the Act), for the grant of letters of administration for the administration of the estate of late Shri Gurcharan Dass Puri, (Shri G.D. Puri, for short). Shri G.D. Puri died on Nov. 27, 1963, leaving behind his widow Shrimati Sewa Devi, one son Shri Amrit Sagar Puri (hereinafter referred to as Shri A.S. Puri) and six daughters, viz., Mrs. Lily Soni; Mrs. Pushpa Kochhar; Mrs. Santosh Mehra; Mrs. Usha Duggal; Mrs. Prem Kochhar and Mrs. Meena Roy. He died intestate. The present petition for the grant of the letters of administration has been filed on May 4, 1984, i.e., after about twenty years of the death of Shri G.D. Puri. In the written statement filed on behalf of Shri A.S. Puri; Mrs. Lily Soni and Mrs. Santosh Mehra, certain preliminary objections were raised in regard to the limitation and the maintainability of the petition as such. According to them, the petition was mala fide to grab the property to which the petitioners had no right after the death of Shri G.D. Puri, After his death, a family arrangement was arrived at on Dec. 22, 1963, by which it was decided by all h