Court voids Rajmata will, orders stay on property -------------------------------------------------VADODARA: The battle royale for property in the Gaekwad family, the former rulers of Vadodara, took yet another interesting turn on Saturday with the civil judge P R Makwana nullifying Rajmata Shantadevi Gaekwad�s will. The court ordered a stay on all immovable and movable properties of the royal family.Public prosecutor Avdooth Sumant filed an application before the court seeking a stay on the order for a couple of days, but it was quashed.The court said that the will is fabricated and appointed court commissioners in advocate Srikrishna Acharya and senior clerk Chandrakant Kahrwa to take �panchnama� of all the immovable property of the royal family and asked them to submit a report. Shantadevi�s youngest son, Sangramsinh Gaekwad had alleged in July that the will and the two codicils were fabricated documents. He has even alleged that his mother�s signatures have been forged as none of the three documents have the same signature.The family of the former rulers has been divided ever since Sangramsinh filed in the High Court in 1991 questioning Shantadevi�s right to draw up a will. On one side is the eldest daughter Mrunalini Devi Puar and Ranjitsinh and on the other there is Sangramsinh.Sangramsinh had argued in 1991 that they are not governed by the Hindu Succession Act and that their family custom did not allow the women to inherit property.Shantadevi died on May 22 last year and the royal family allegedly fabricated the will to siphon off the property, said advocate of Sangramsinh Gaekwad, Kailash Jethmalani. Puwar also sought a probate on the will.However, Puar has failed to produce the original copy of the will before the court even after a year. Sangramsinh has filed an objection into Puar�s probate as well. In an application on June 26, the court had granted adinterim orders directing Ranjitsinh Gaekwad, his sister and chancellor of M S University Mrunalinidevi Puar and his son Samarjitsinh Gaekwad to maintain a status quo on all properties of the royal family till July 9.The court has ordered the stay on the Laxmivilas palace, the 707 acres surrounding the palace, the field next to the Polo Ground, the land in front of technology faculty, 5,000 square metres of land on Juhu Tara road in Mumbai, the property on race course road, Shikari Chowki at Timbi, Dabka outhouse, agricultural land near Makarpura, the bungalow at Ajwa, the land near Jambhua, among others. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com