SURBHI SHARMA vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 16th April, 2025 Date of Decision: 27th August, 2025 TEST.CAS. 69/2024 & I.As. 37687-88/2024, 42337-39/2024 SURBHI SHARMA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Visheshwar Shrivastav and Mr. Manoj Kumar Gautam, Advocates versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Ms. Avni Singh, Advocate for GNCTD % CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA JUDGMENT MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J: 1. This testamentary petition is filed along with the applications which have been taken up altogether. 2. The Petitioner has filed the present petition under Section 237 and 276 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (‘Act of 1925’) for grant of Probate on a photocopy of an unregistered Will dated 01.11.2023 purported to have been executed by late Ms. Sangam Sharma (‘Testatrix’), aged about 30 years, residing at 121, Ground Floor, Shubham Apartment, Sector-12, Pocket-4, Dwarka, New Delhi-110077, at which address she was residing at the time of her death on 12.01.2024. 3. By this judgment, this Court shall now proceed to decide the present petition. Submissions on behalf of the Petitioner 4. It is the case of the Petitioner that la