The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by three people challenging a 2001 will that left their grandmother’s properties to her surviving sons, ruling that the document was validly executed and free of doubts.

In a 11-page order uploaded on Thursday, Justice Pankaj Jain upheld lower court findings in favour of the respondents, Saroj Gupta and others, who defended the will as a genuine expression of the late Shanti Devi’s wishes. The appellants, Vinod Gupta and his siblings, had sought a one-fourth share in the suit properties, claiming the will was forged and that they were entitled to inherit as co-owners after their grandmother’s death in June 2003.

Shanti Devi and her husband, the late Siri Ram, had four sons and three daughters. One of the sons, Gobind Ram,

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