SC rules on property will

Even tell-tale signs like a shaky signature can shroud a dying mans written testament in suspicion,the Supreme Court has said,and assurance of a person who benefited the most from it is not good enough to satisfy a judicial inquiry into validity of a will.

Cases in which execution of the will is surrounded by suspicious circumstances stand on different footing. A shaky signature,a feeble mind,an unfair and unjust disposition of property,the propounder himself taking a leading part in making of the will under which he receives substantial benefit raise suspicion about its execution, the judgment by a Bench of Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay said.

Genuineness of will cannot be disputed merely because the testator declined share in the family property to ungrateful children.