Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition for Letters of Administration for Lack of Territorial Jurisdiction — Amendment Sought to Include Properties Outside Jurisdiction Cannot Confer Jurisdiction. The court held that the High Court's testamentary jurisdiction under Section 300 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 is limited to cases where the deceased had a fixed place of abode or left property within its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, and an amendment to add properties outside that jurisdiction cannot cure the defect....
The judgment concerns two interim applications in a testamentary petition for grant of Letters of Administration. The petitioner, Uday Sharad Kulkarni, claimed to be a relative of the deceased Claude ...
