IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VIVEK JAIN

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ON THE 25 OF FEBRUARY, 2026 MISC. PETITION No. 4165 of 2024 LATA Versus MEENA AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Pramendra Singh Thakur - Advocate for the Petitioner.

Shri Pushpendra Dubey - Advocate for the Respondents No.1, 2 and 3.

ORDER By way of this Petition, challenge is made to the Orders dated

19.01.2024 and 03.05.2025 whereby the Trial Court has rejected the request for obtaining expert opinion of Handwriting Expert on the questioned will to scrutinize and examine the signatures of testator on the will.

2. Learned counsel for the Petitioner submits that the testator was a Patwari in Revenue Department and earlier, the petitioners had filed application under Section 45 praying that the signature of the deceased testator be compared by a handwriting expert with the standard signatures on some revenue documents which he had signed in his position as Patwari. The Trial Court had rejected the said application on 19.01.2024 on the ground that the signatures of the testator do not indicate that these are by the same person, because only signatures are marked without mentioning the name of the person sig