Scientist's bungalow to go to wife's nephew
MUMBAI, Aug. 23 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday validated the will of Rajlaxmi Ayengar, wife of eminent scientist A R Gopal Ayengar, which bequeathed their bungalow in Mysore Colony in Chembur to her nephew, Dr Govindraja Iyengar, a US-based scientist.
A single judge bench of Justice NJ Jamadar rejected Dr A R Gopal Ayengar's nephew AR Sampathkumar's claim that the will was forged.
Dr Ayengar, who worked as director, bio-medical group, at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, passed away in September 1992. He had left behind a will, bequeathing certain movable properties to his nephew and their Mysore Colony bungalow to his wife. Rajlaxmi passed away in February 2002, leaving behind a will dated December 22, 1998, bequeathing her right, title and interest in the bungalow to her nephew, Dr Iyengar.
Dr Iyengar filed a petition in 2011 seeking probate-validation of his aunt's will-which Sampathkumar contested.
After Sampathkumar's death, his sons appeared before the high court, contending that on the day she made the will, Rajlaxmi was admitted to the hospital in an unconscious state. They alleged that Dr Iyengar and others took advantage of the situation and created false documents. The court, however, refused to accept their claims and held that the will was duly prepared, as required by law....
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