C.M.A.No.3013 of 2023

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 18.12.2023

CORAM

MR.JUSTICE N.SESHASAYEE

C.M.A.No.3013 of 2023

N.Karthikeyan

... Appellant

Vs

NIL

... Respondent

Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 299 of Indian

Succesion Act, 1925, seeking to set aside the order dated 25.01.2023 in Probate

Original Petition No.148 of 2020 on the file of the Principal District Judge,

Kancheepuram District, Chengalapttu.

For Appellant

:

Mr.D.R.Arun Kumar

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C.M.A.No.3013 of 2023

JUDGEMENT

The appellant herein challenges an order passed by the Principal District Court,

Kancheepuram District, Chengalapttu in Probate O.P.No.148 of 2020, by which

the learned Principal District Judge has dismissed the appellant's application for

grant of probate. The subject matter of the Will is a few items of immovable

properties that originally belonged to a certain Krishnasamy. Krishnasamy died

leaving behind his wife, Uma, as his sole heir. Uma died on 29.05.2020, and a

few months prior to that, to be precise, on 13.01.2020, she had executed a Will

bequeathing all her properties in favour of the appellant, who is