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2013 (10) TMI 488 - CALCUTTA HIGH COURTRefusal in Granting Succession Certificate – Releasing the amount of arrear pension and other reliefs - Whether a certificate issued by the Administrator General can be equated with a succession certificate issued by a Court of law – Held that:- There is no doubt that the procedure required for issuing succession certificate is much elaborate in nature - Notice has to be served on the rival claimants - But a certificate issued by the Administrator General is on affidavits only - The certificate issued by the Administrator General under section 29 of the Act cannot be equated with that of a certificate issued by the Administrator General - There was no lack of logic in the insistence of the respondents upon a succession certificate from a Court of law - If the law requires a succession certificate to be obtained from a competent Court of law that cannot be short-routed by obtaining a certificate under section 29 - it cannot be said that the authorities had unjustly insisted on a succession certificate –Decided against Petitioner.
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