1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO.10 OF 2010 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders Court’s or Judge’s orders or directions and Registrar’s orders Mr. R.M. Deshmukh, Advocate for the appellant. CORAM : A.P. DESHPANDE & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE : 9th March, 2010. PER COURT : 1. The appellants are defendants in a suit instituted by the respondents/plaintiffs. According to the learned counsel for the appellants, the suit is for partition and the present appellants have filed a counter claim therein. The appellants are lady litigants and thus, are claiming exemption from payment of court fees stamp. It is the case of the appellants that they have a share in the joint family property being heirs of the deceased husband. The learned counsel for the appellants has placed on record a Government notification dated 1/10/1994 claiming the said benefit. However, the benefit extended by the earlier Govt. notification has been negated by a 2 subsequent notification dated 23rd March, 2000. The second notification issued on 23rd March, 2000 and the effect thereof, has been elaborately considered by the Division Bench of this Court, in case of “Girish Munshi Vs. Mugdha Munshi” reported in 2008 (4) Bom.C.R. 787. 2. As the controversy involved in this LPA has already been adjudicated by the Division Bench against the appellant, the LPA is summarily dismissed. [N.D. DESHPANDE,J] [A.P. DESHPANDE,J.] grt/-