Hello all learned lawyers.
We are Hindu. My Father-in-law partitioned his self acquired agricultural land near Sangli, Maharashtra and 4 residential buildings in Sangli equally amongst his 2 sons, 2 daughters by way of unregistered family settlement on Rs. 10 stamp in year 1985. Everyone got their name mutated in the land record. I am widow of eldest son. Father-in-law died in 2009. Husband died in 2010. Now my husband’s farmland is mutated jointly in name of me and my son and daughter both born before family settlement.
Now govt has acquired the farmland and our housemaid who was working at my late husband rented place where he was posted before retirement objected on land reward claiming to be second wife of my husband. She made a forged WILL of my husband showing 80% land to given to her and half of family pension. Her husband left her after birth of a her 30 years ago and his whereabouts are not known. She is asking for 50% of reward money for out-of-court settlement and threatening with long duration of court cases. We have asked land acquisition officer to refer the case to civil court.
Questions
1) What is the chance that court will consider her claim as valid?
2) The photocopy of WILL shown to us is printed and just bears a clearly fake sign of my husband. the 2 witnesses who signed are unknown to anyone in our family. Can we file a forgery FIR and/or case?
3) Can she file probate of WILL? Can we loadge an FIR for forgery even in this situation?
4) Even if the WILL is genuine, can my husband give away 80% of land which he got in partition from his father when father was alive? Or my son and daughter have share in it by birth?
5)Can we request the court to release undisputed amount in our favor if question 4 above is in our favor? We know for sure that she is threatening us just on the basis of the amount of delay the court case can cause to get the land money reward in our name.
