Distribution of died bachelor brother's assets

1.  IF deceased had not executed anyWILL documents, THEN without any exceptions, "ALL" his residual Class-I & then Class-II Legal Heirs, shall be entitled  to claim EQUAL share ratio of ALL properties of deceased person, irrespective of the Nomination of selected properties.

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The deceased and his family professed Hinduism, Muslim, Christian or which faith ?

The property left by the deceased shall devolve upon his LRs as per personal law applicable in this case.

It is reported in the query of one Bank deposit alone.  Bank has to settle the nomination in favor of the nominee, and those who are not willing must go to the court and restrain either the bank or nominee in using his amount for herself.

Nominee is nothing but trustee so all legal heirs are entitled the share .All comes under only second class legalheirs therefore, obtain  succession certificate from the court is advisable

The Deceased Person died intestate while he gave nomination favouring his Brother's Wife.  Now the nominee to receive all the assets/proceeds in her capacity as Trustee and distribute the same as per the personal law applicable to their religion including the married Sister.

As rightly observed by expert lawyers in this thread, the Nominee to a bank account is just a trustee to receive the amount on behalf of the legal heirs/successors in interest and distribute the same equally among all the successors.

If the mother of deceased is not alive  and presuming the deceased belonged to Hindu religion, the properties left behind by him upon his intestate death shall devolve upon his class II legal heirs.

The list of class II legal heirs is given below:

If there are no heirs in Class I, the property will given to the heirs within Class II. They are divided into nine categories. The rule is that an heir in an earlier category excludes heirs in later category. Further all heirs in one category take simultaneously per capita share. They are as follows:

1] Category I -
a) Father.

2] Category II -
a) Son’s daughter’s son.
b) Son’s daughter’s daughter.
c) Brother.
d) Sister.

3] Category III -
a) Daughter’s son’s son.
b) Daughter’s son’s daughter.
c) Daughter’s daughter’s son.
d) Daughter’s daughter’s daughter.

4] Category IV -
a) Brother’s son.
b) Brother’s daughter.
c) Sister’s son.
d) Sister’s daughter.

5] Category V -
a) Father’s father.
b) Father’s mother.

6] Category VI -
a) Father’s widow. [Step mother].
b) Brother’s widow.

7] Category VII -
a) Father’s brother.
b) Father’s sister.

8] Category VIII -
a) Mother’s father.
b) Mother’s mother.

9] Category IX –
a) Mother’s brother.
b) Mother’s sister.

The rule of share in Class-II heirs is that each will take per capita including widow.

The revenue department will not issue legal heirship certificate for class II legal heirs, hence you may either have to approach court with a petition for nonsuccessive certificate or to declare the class II Legal heirs as per the affidavit to be submitted before court in this regard. 
 

What is the value of the estate of the Deceased?  

When Nomination is available, better to take the assets as per nomination and in the presence of family elders to distribute duly reducing entire matter into writing duly signed by all legal heirs and get the same Notarised for posterity, in case anybody again rakes up the issue.  However, all this is only if the estate of the deceased is of great value say in crores.  

younger sister can claim equal share along with the younger brother in all the assets including bank deposits of the deceased brother who is said to have died bachelor and intestate.

The experts have opined on the basis of presumption that the deceased was a Hindu, which may not be the case.