Legal opinion sought on matters pertaining to erstwhile royal estate of kutlehar (himachal pradesh)

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Respected Sirs,

Lawyers have already shared their opinions and we also have the relevant case documents. We are inviting general opinion on this topic as the matter is quite complex with multi bench litigation and complex legal entanglement for all stakeholders.

The legitimate heirs are unable to bear with Court fees or pursue these matter due decades of deprivation and neglect, all family assets have been illegally seized and are in possession of an Illegitimate child of the erstwhile Raja.

There is a Will of the late Raja in favour of the illegitimate family but contrary to Indian law the legally wedded wife of the Raja and their heirs were not given/disowned or disallowed from most of the share in their Ancestral estate.

We are seeking an opinion on the validity and legitimacy of such a will and the valid of the second marriage while being married already to his wife.

As you have mentioned that the litigation is going for decades, any opinion given during the pendency of a litigation would be prejudice.

However any opinion in this regard in further would be based on the scrutiny of the case related papers and not without perusing the relevant papers. 

Sir we are seeking opinion, Due Diligence and review of disposed off matters as well. Members of the Kutlehar Family have been involved in various lawsuits across the board and most matters have either been dismissed or ruled in favour of the opposing parties. 

List of cases pertaining to the Kutlehar family of Himachal Pradesh are as follows incase anyone can derive an opinion from information available online on websites such as indiakanoon etc. 

Case papers can be made available for some of the matters but we would like to know if someone can do their own due diligence and research on this topic and form an opinion and prepare a forensic report in an holistic manner. The list of cases ongoing and disposed off are as follows:

1. Matter related to Personal law of testamentary succession where the wife of the deceased was not granted any share in the estate of her deceased husband. 

Diary Number: 19567-2022

Case Number: R.P.(C) No. 001341 - / 2022  Registered on 07-11-2022

Rajeshwari Vs Kuldeep Kaur 

2. Property dispute where a suit for specific performance of contract was enforced and the victim and his entire family which included divorcees, widows, a fully paralysed accident victim and minor children evicted from their childhood family home despite the plaintiff’s failure to meet the contingencies in the sale contract. The victim had ceased to exist during the pendency of the trial. Compensation granted to the family was far below the market rate of the said property at the time of eviction.

Diary No.- 44647 - 2019

Late Mahendra Pal since deceased through LRs vs Deepak Gupta and Ors.

MA 002631 - / 2019  Registered on 14-12-2019

3. Election fraud where the victim was not granted a recount despite several discrepancies and accusations of fraud in the local assembly election. The major discrepancies arising in this case would be 1) Difference in votes polled against actual votes. 2) 750 votes or 2.12% of the electorate declared as invalid. 3) the extremely narrow margin of victory not being considered as a valid ground for recount.  

Case Number: Appeal (civil)  4085 of 1998

Mahendra Pal vs Ram Dass Malanger and Ors. 

Date of Judgement: 27/10/1999

4. This case also pertains to testamentary succession where the Will of the erstwhile Raja has been challenged by his legitimate heirs including his wife Rani Lalita Kumari of Kutlehar. There are several cases mentioned in the Will of the erstwhile Raja.

Case Number: CS/3/2015 at the High Court of Shimla (Matter now Transferred to Una District Court)

Yudhister Pal vs Budhishwar Pal and Ors 

5. Money Suit:

Case Number: ARB.C/54/2010 at the High Court of Shimla

State vs Mohinder Pal 

6. Malicious litigation being pursued by illegitimate beneficiaries of Kutlehar Estate namely Shivendra Pal to cause further distress and harassment to the legal heirs of Mahendra Pal:

(i) Case Number: CS/489/2016 at the court of Additional Civil Judge Panchkula (Haryana)

Shivendra Pal vs Yudhister Pal and Ors

(ii) Civil Misc. Application/158/2016 at Civil Judge Senior Division, Kangra (Yudhister Pal vs Rupinder Pal)

(iii) CS CJ/1924/2016 at the Civil courts in Chandigarh (Shivendra Pal vs Yudhister Pal)