The Bombay High Court on Monday sought an enterprise from veteran actor Randhir Kapoor and sister Rima Jain that they’d make “reasonable efforts” to find and submit the divorce decree of their late brother Rajiv Kapoor.
Justice Gautam Patel was listening to a testamentary petition filed by Randhir and Rima for letters of administration to the property and credit of their brother Rajiv, who died intestate on February 9 this yr. The petition mentioned Rajiv obtained married to Aarti Sabharwal in 2001 they usually divorced two years later.
Counsel for Randhir and Jain, Sharan Jagtiani informed the choose that the excessive court docket’s registry division has requested them to submit a licensed copy of the divorce decree earlier than the court docket proceeds with the testamentary petition. Jagtiani added the siblings didn’t know which household court docket had handed the divorce decree.
He mentioned Randhir and Jain are the one heirs to Rajiv’s estates and sought dispensation to submit the divorce decree. Justice Patel in his order mentioned he was able to dispense with the requisition from the registry however solely upon the petitioners giving a sworn enterprise that they’d make efforts to find the decree of divorce, and if discovered, the identical needs to be tendered to the registry.
“However, this does not mean the hearing of the testamentary petition, which is uncontested and lists only the petitioners as next of kind, should be stopped or the grant withheld only for this reason,” the excessive court docket mentioned.
