P&H: Refuses to Interfere With Findings Invalidating Will, Exclusion of natural heir without any reason

punjab-haryana
⚖️ Order Date: 11 Sep 2026
Headnotes

Will — Suspicious circumstances — Exclusion of a natural heir without any reason, thumb impression of the testator despite evidence that he used to sign in English, and the plea of prior family settlement not being reflected in the Will or proved by evidence, cumulatively...


Facts of the Case

P&H: Refuses to Interfere With Findings Invalidating Will, Exclusion of natural heir without any reason

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a regular second appeal filed by Bhopal Singh and another against concurrent findings that a Will dated 18 March 2008 was surrounded by suspicious circumstances and could not be treated as genuine.

The dispute arose from a suit filed by Jagmal Singh, who claimed that the suit property was ancestral and that he had a share in it along with his brothers. He alleged that their father, Mulki Ram, had not validly executed the Will in favour of the defendants and that the mutations based on it were illegal and not binding...

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