She willed house to sister, revoked it; HC upholds second Will for adopted daughter

A property dispute between two sisters over a six-room house in Ludhiana has reached the Supreme Court after the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled in favour of the elder sister’s adopted daughter. The dispute concerns a house built on 79 square yards of land and owned by a childless widow.The woman had a younger sister and a brother, who lived nearby. The brother used to visit and care for his sister as she grew older. On February 15, 2008, the woman Kaur revoked her first Will, which had originally intended to leave the property to the younger sister after her death.The brother died in the last week of December 2009, leaving the woman alone at the house. She subsequently adopted her younger sister’s daughter as her own.In January 2010, the woman travelled to Mayya Da Dera in Phillaur to attend a function and locked her house before leaving.