In a statement issued in response to a report ('Dr Jamshed Bhabha will not genuine, allege Department of Atomic Energy staff, write to CM Devendra Fadnavis') published in dna on May 24. The NCPA said, "The allegations concerning the so-called "fake" will are false and emphatically denied."
The National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) has clarified that the allegations levelled by representatives of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) about discrepancies in Dr Jamshed Bhabha's will are completely false, and that the will probate was obtained by the executors after the mandatory due diligence process in the high court
In a statement issued in response to a report ('Dr Jamshed Bhabha will not genuine, allege Department of Atomic Energy staff, write to CM Devendra Fadnavis') published in dna on May 24. The NCPA said, "The allegations concerning the so-called "fake" will are false and emphatically denied."
It further said, "We would like to re-state that the proceedings, both in the high court as well as in the Supreme Court, are no longer "still pending", they having been disposed of by both these courtswithout granting any relief to the persons who have now brought up this preposterous claim as a shot in the dark, realising that all their efforts to scuttle our genuine claim have failed. "Also we would like to emphasize that the heritage committee had declined to list the bungalow as a heritage bungalow, and even the municipal commissioner had upheld this view. So also, the state government has declined to have the bungalow declared a protected monument."
Last June, the bungalow was auctioned by NCPA for Rs372 crore. As per the will, NCPA has been bequeathed the estate of Dr Jamshed Bhabha including the bungalow, Mehrangir, where Dr Homi Bhabha lived. The DAE employees, however, demanded that the property be declared a heritage site.
Last month, president of the National Forum for Aided Institutions Employees, Ram Dhuri, who had also approached the high court seeking a stay on the bungalow's auction, wrote to the chief minister that the will was nowhere to be found until 2010. It alleges that there's no clarity about the custodian of the bungalow for those three years.
Moreover, it claims that there are discrepancies in the will regarding the style of writing, and that signatures are missing in a few places.
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