{"id":244051,"date":"2021-02-19T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=244051"},"modified":"2021-02-26T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T07:06:49","slug":"will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/02\/19\/will\/","title":{"rendered":"MP HC | Do the revenue authorities have jurisdiction to decide the correctness and genuineness of a \u201cWill\u201d? Court explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Madhya Pradesh High Court:<\/strong> G.S. Ahluwalia, J., disposed of a writ petition setting aside the orders passed by the Board of Revenue and Additional Commissioner in relation to a matter of Will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petition contained that the husband of the petitioner had one-half share in the agricultural land bearing survey nos.1031 area 0.81 hectare, 1033 area 0.15 hectare, 1040 area 0.72 hectare, 1084 area 0.76 hectare total area 2.44 hectare situated in a village. The husband of the petitioner had died issue-less on 17-5-2006 due to illness. The respondents had then filed an application for mutation of their names on the basis of a \u201cWill\u201d purportedly executed by the deceased. The petitioner submitted her objection and claimed that she is the sole legal heir of deceased, being his legally wedded wife. After which the Tehsildar had rejected the application filed by the respondents, being aggrieved an appeal was filed before the Court of SDO which was again rejected. Finally respondent made n appeal before the Additional Commissioner which was allowed after relying upon the so called \u201cWill\u201d executed by deceased and the names of the respondents were directed to be mutated in the revenue records, aggrieved by which the petitioners had preferred an appeal before the Additional Commissioner which was dismissed. Thus, the instant appeal was filed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court relied on the decision given in <em>Ranjit v. Nandita Singh<\/em>, MP No.2692 of 2020 which talked about the Conferral of Status of Courts on Board and Revenue Officers where it was clearly held that the revenue authorities have no jurisdiction to decide the correctness and genuineness of a \u201cWill\u201d and if the propounder of the \u201cWill\u201d wants to take advantage of the \u201cWill\u201d, then he had to get his title declared from the Civil Court of competent jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court while setting aside the orders passed by the Board of Revenue and Additional Commissioner directed that the revenue authorities restore the names of the petitioner in the revenue records.[Ramkali v. Banmali, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/9M4Wx3LP\"><b>2021 SCC OnLine MP 359<\/b><\/a>, decided on 17-02-2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Suchita Shukla, Editorial Assistant has put this story together.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhya Pradesh High Court: G.S. 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