Lakshmi Parvathi has suffered a major setback in the High Court, in her petition seeking appointment as the managing trustee of the ‘Basavatarakam Trust’. The Telangana High Court has made key observations on the supplementary will allegedly executed by Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao on November 18, 1995.
It has been clarified that the City Civil Court (lower court) did not follow the procedure prescribed by law in proving this will. The High Court has set aside the orders given by the lower court in 2018, identifying G. Venkata Subbaiah, the heir of J.V. Prasad Rao, as a witness (PW-3) who signed the supplementary will.
It was stated that it was invalid to admit the heirs of J. Venkata Subbaiah and Y Tirupati Rao, who signed the will as witnesses, without summoning them. It was stated that it was invalid to admit their heirs as witnesses without any evidence that both of them were dead.
It was stated that it was invalid to identify his son JV Prasad Rao as PW-3 based on the oral statement that Venkata Subbaiah, who signed the will as a witness, was dead. In 2009, Lakshmi Parvathi filed an OP (petition) in the City Civil Court of Lakshmi Parvathi, the trust, to appoint her as the managing trustee of the Basavatarakam Trust as per the supplementary will, which is said to have been written by Rama Rao in 1995.
In the wake of the death of Venkata Subbaiah, who signed the supplementary will, the petitioner Lakshmi Parvathi requested that his son Prasad Rao be identified as a witness. Also, JV Prasad Rao stated in his affidavit that his father Venkata Subyaiah had died.. and that what Rama Rao Villu had written was true and that his father had informed him.
With this, the lower court agreed to examine Prasad Rao as PW-3. However, Challenging these orders Basavatarakam Trust, Nandamuri Balakrishna, Nandamuri Harikrishna filed a civil revision petition in the High Court in 2019.