Signing will in different language does not make it bogus,says High Court

Veena contended that the flat had been purchased from the funds given by her late husband Chandru and the will was a bogus document,made to usurp the flat. Veena’s lawyer pointed out that prior to the execution of the will; she would always sign in Urdu.

Two earlier ‘vakalat namas’ (letters authorising lawyers) and the flat’s nomination made by her,which bore her signatures in Urdu,was produced to prove the point.

The court observed that Gurumukhi was the mother tongue since she was a Sindhi lady. “Mere signature in her mother tongue…does not lend itself to suspicion at all,” the court said.

Justice Roshan Dalvi said in the judgment delivered recently,“since Urdu is a better known language,she could have signed those papers in Urdu.” The judge,however,held that it “would not prevent her from signing her own will in Gurumukhi.”