NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE OF CO-HEIRS
Executed at Pune on 1 April 2026.
To
The Secretary, Shantiniketan Co-operative Housing Society Ltd.
Plot 14, Sector 8, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210
(the "Addressee")
1. WHAT THIS CERTIFICATE IS
1.1 This is a no objection certificate. It records the consent of the surviving heirs named in it. It is not a conveyance, a sale, a gift, a release, a relinquishment, a partition, a will, a succession certificate, a legal heirship certificate, probate or letters of administration, and it is not a substitute for any of them.
1.2 A succession certificate under section 372 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 covers debts and securities only. It does not establish title to immovable property. Nothing in this certificate is a succession certificate or does the work of one.
2. THE DECEASED
2.1 Name: Ramesh Kumar Sharma
2.2 Last residence: Flat 402, Shantiniketan CHS Ltd., Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210
2.3 Died on 2 April 2026 at Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra (the "Deceased").
2.4 Death certificate: No. D-2025/114872 issued by the Panvel Municipal Corporation on 18 November 2025. A copy is annexed.
2.5 Succession to the estate of the Deceased is governed by Hindu law, the Deceased having been a Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Sikh.
2.6 Basis of succession: Intestate succession — the Deceased left no will known to the Heirs.
2.7 The will of the Deceased, and any grant of probate or letters of administration in respect of it: Will dated 2 April 2021, registered at the office of the Sub-Registrar, Panvel, as document no. 3312/2021; the original is held by the widow. No probate or letters of administration have been applied for.
Where a will is recited in clause 2.7, this certificate is given subject to that will and to any such grant, and clause 2.6 is to be read accordingly.
2.8 Probate and letters of administration. Where the Deceased left a will, whether a grant of probate or of letters of administration with the will annexed must be obtained before any right as executor or legatee under that will can be established in a court in India is governed by section 213 read with section 57 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925, and turns on the law stated in clause 2.5. The four positions are:
(a) Where the Deceased was a Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jain — section 213(1) applies only to a will of the classes described in section 57(a) and (b): a will made within the territories which at the commencement of the Act were subject to the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, or within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Courts at Madras and Bombay; and a will made outside those territories and limits, so far as it relates to immovable property situate within them. The Bengal territories are not confined to Calcutta or to its original side, so a will made in the mofussil of that region can fall within section 213(1). A will outside those classes falls under section 57(c) and is outside section 213 altogether.
(b) Where the Deceased was a Parsi dying after the commencement of the Indian Succession (Amendment) Act, 1962 — section 213(1) applies only where the will was made within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Courts at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, and, where the will was made outside those limits, only so far as it relates to immovable property situate within them (section 213(2)(ii)).
(c) Where the Deceased was a Christian, a Jew, or another person to whom the Indian Succession Act, 1925 applies and who is not within (a), (b) or (d) — section 213(1) applies with no territorial limit whatever. No right as executor or legatee can be established in any court in India without probate of the will or letters of administration with the will annexed (Clarence Pais v. Union of India (2001) 4 SCC 325). A legatee in this class who signs or relies on this certificate without obtaining a grant holds a legacy that cannot be enforced in court.
(d) Where the Deceased was a Muslim — section 213 does not apply to a will made by a Muslim (section 213(2)). Separately, a Muslim testator may bequeath not more than one-third of the net estate, after funeral expenses and debts, in favour of a person other than an heir, and a bequest beyond that limit, or any bequest to an heir, takes effect only with the consent of the heirs given after the death of the testator.
No grant of probate or letters of administration has been obtained under this certificate, and none is asserted. Where a grant is required on the position that applies, the Addressee is asked to require its production before acting on any will.