A privileged will or codicil, may be revoked by the testator by an unprivileged will .or codicil, or by any act expressing an intention to revoke it and accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged will, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Explanation.- In order to the revocation of a privileged will or codicil by an act accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged will, it is not necessary that the testator should at the time of doing that act be in a situation which entitles him to make a privileged will.
Legal Commentary & Landmark Judgments: Section 72
Section 72 provides the statutory procedure for the Revocation of Privileged Wills and codicils executed by soldiers, airmen, or mariners in active service.
In military succession disputes, counsel seeking to prove oral revocation of a privileged will under Section 72 must produce two independent military personnel who witnessed the testator's unambiguous oral declaration of revocation during active operations.