Mewar royal family property dispute: Delhi High Court rejects petition of one party amid claims of brother and sister

The Delhi High Court has rejected the petition of Princess Padmaja Kumari Parmar in an important property dispute related to the Mewar royal family. Padmaja Kumari had sought a letter of administration to manage the property of her late father Arvind Singh Mewar.

Delhi HC said, Padmaja Kumari’s application is not legally maintainable. While hearing the case in the court, Justice Subramaniam Prasad said that the petition filed by Padmaja Kumari is not legally maintainable. The court also made it clear that whatever objections Padmaja Kumari is raising on the will presented by her brother, can be raised in the same case which her brother has filed in the court.

Actually, this entire dispute is about the properties of the former royal family of Mewar and Udaipur. Padmaja Kumari’s brother Lakshyaraj Singh claims that their father Arvind Singh Mewar had bequeathed his self-acquired property to him and made him the sole heir. At the same time, Padmaja Kumari argued in the court that no such valid will exists.

He says that the will presented by his brother was made at a time when his father’s mental condition was not good and pressure was also put on him. Both the brothers and sisters had filed separate testamentary cases in the High Court regarding their respective sides and sought the right to manage their father’s property.

The Delhi High Court said in its decision that a dispute has now arisen regarding the validity of the will presented by the brother and it should be decided under Section 295 of the Indian Succession Act in the same case in which the will has been presented. The court said that if the same issue is heard in different cases, there may be a possibility of contradictory decisions, which is against the intention of the law.

However, the court did not completely disappoint Padmaja Kumari. The court has given her the liberty to challenge the validity of the will in the case filed by her brother and raise all the objections there. After this decision, now the main legal dispute of this much-discussed property fight of the Mewar royal family will proceed in the case filed by Bhai Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, where the court will decide whether the will of Arvind Singh Mewar is valid or not.