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1996 DIGILAW 212 (KAR)

MALLANA GOUDA v. STATE OF KARNATAKA

1996-03-27

M.M.MIRDHE

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M. M. MIRDHE, J. ( 1 ) LA. No. II is filed by the applicants seeking to come on record as the L. Rs. of the petitioner who died on 2-12-1995 on the basis of a registered will dated 15-12-1992 in favour of the applicants. Another LA. dated 15-2-1996 is filed by the applicants who claim to be the sons of Rudragowda Patil and who want to come on record as Class I heirs of deceased Mallanagouda. ( 2 ) I have heard the Counsel for the applicants, Counsel for respondent 3 and the Government Pleader for respondents 1 and 2 and perused the records of the case. ( 3 ) PETITIONER Mallanagouda filed Form No. 7 claiming occupancy rights in the lands in question. The Tribunal rejected his claim and dismissed his Form No. 7. The petitioner filed this writ petition praying to quash that order of the Land Tribunal. It is not disputed that petitioner Mallanagouda died on 2-12-1995. LA. No. II is filed by the applicants who claim to be the sons of one Fakiragouda Patil, who was the brother of mallanagouda. In the LA. , it is stated by them that by virtue of a will executed by the petitioner on 14-12-1992 in their favour, they are entitled to come on record. The Will is not admitted by the other side. In writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the constitution, the disputed questions which are required to be decided after elucidating of evidence cannot be gone into. Moreover, it is well settled principle of law that the tenancy rights cannot be willed away by a Will. Therefore, the claim of the applicants in LA. No. II to come on record by virtue of that will cannot be permitted. Hence, LA. No. II is liable to be dismissed. ( 4 ) THE other LA. dated 15-2-1996 is filed by the applicants, who claim to be the sons of Rudragouda Patil. It is their case that Mallanagouda has died without any wife or children behind him and as he was a bachelor and they are his Class I heirs. If the category of Class I heirs is perused in Section 8 of the Hindu succession Act, the brother's sons are not found to be in that class. Moreover, in I. A. No. II, a Will is set up. If the category of Class I heirs is perused in Section 8 of the Hindu succession Act, the brother's sons are not found to be in that class. Moreover, in I. A. No. II, a Will is set up. If the Will is proved and accepted, then the applicants in this LA. have no locus standi to come on record. This is a complicated question of law as to who are the heirs of Mallanagouda on the basis of the alleged Will or on the basis of the applicants being the cognates or agnates. Such question cannot be decided in this writ petition. Hence, both the I. As. are liable to be dismissed. ( 5 ) HENCE, I proceed to pass the following order: Both the I. As. are dismissed and the writ petition is also dismissed as having abated. --- *** --- .