The Delhi High Court dismissed Padmaja Kumari Parmar’s plea for letters of administration of Arvind Singh Mewar’s estate, ruling it not maintainable and directing her to raise objections to the will in proceedings initiated by Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court dismissed a petition by Mewar princess Padmaja Kumari Parmar seeking letters of administration for the estate of her late father, Arvind Singh Mewar.
Justice Subramonium Prasad held that Parmar’s suit was not maintainable and that the objections she has raised to the will produced by her brother, Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, should be ventilated in the testamentary proceeding initiated by him.
Lakshyaraj Mewar contends that their father left the estate to him.
The Court observed,
“In the opinion of this Court, no cause of action subsists in TEST.CAS. 2/2026 [Padmaja Kumar Parmar’s case] after filing of Letters of Administration with Will. All the contentions raised in TEST.CAS. 2/2026 can be dealt with in TEST.CAS. 4/2026 [Lakshyaraj Mewar’s case], including the appointment of an interim administrator till the Will propounded by the Petitioner in TEST.CAS. 4/2026 is proved,”
The siblings’ dispute concerns control and inheritance of properties belonging to their late father, a member of the former Mewar royal family of Udaipur. Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar says Arvind Singh Mewar left a will naming him sole heir of his self-acquired properties.
Padmaja Kumari Parmar maintains there is no valid will, alleging the document produced by her brother was executed when their father was mentally unsound and under undue influence.
Both parties filed testamentary petitions in the High Court seeking letters of administration for the properties. The Court today dismissed Padmaja Kumari’s petition.
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The Court said,
“The dispute regarding the validity of the said Will [produced by Lakshyaraj Singh, has thus assumed a contentious character within the meaning of Section 295 of the Indian Succession Act. Consequently, the statutory scheme contemplates that the issue of testamentary validity be adjudicated in the said proceedings, which are required to proceed in the nature of a civil suit. Permitting adjudication of the same issue in parallel proceedings founded on intestacy would run contrary to the legislative scheme and may result in inconsistent findings,”
The court, however, allowed her the freedom to press all her objections in the case filed by her brother.
Senior Advocates Arvind Nigam and Abhishek Malhotra, assisted by Anuradha Dutt, Chaitanya Kaushik, Suman Yadav, Kunal Dutt, Raghav Dutt, Avinash K. Singh, Seema Mehta, Saurabh Pal, Vidhi Uppal, Kartikay Dutta and Anukriti Trivedi, appeared for Padmaja Kumar Parmar.
Senior Advocates Rajiv Nayar, Dayan Krishnan and Darpan Wadhwa, with C. Rashmikant, Mahesh Agarwal, Rishi Agrawala, Rohan Dakshini, Varad Nath, Jay Sanklecha, Prathan Vir Agarwal, Anuja Bhansali, Urvi Gupta, Prabhav Bahuguna, Shreedhar Kale and Muskan Sethi, represented Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar.
Senior Advocates Sandeep Sethi and Arun Kathpalia, along with Bani Brar, Shreya Sethi and Tahira Kathpalia, represented Bhargavi Kumari.
Case Title: Padmaja Kumar Parmar v Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar & Ors
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