India, Dec. 21 -- The Bombay High Court has found a prima facie case of contempt against Marina Manuel Fernandes for acting in violation of a subsisting stay on a probate granted in her favour, holding that she had knowingly exercised rights flowing from the stayed probate by executing documents related to a Bandra property in favour of a real estate firm.

Justice Sharmila U Deshmukh, while hearing a contempt petition arising from a long-running testamentary dispute, recorded that the court had, by an order dated February 6, 2023, stayed the operation of the probate granted to Fernandes on November 16, 2017. "The stay also extended to proceedings before the deputy collector, suburban division, Bandra, pending disposal of a connected misc...