Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 462 · Decided 4 April 2019
Ajit Kaur @ Surjit Kaur v. Darshan Singh (Dead) Through LRS. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 462 · [2019] 6 S.C.R. 443
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 226/2010
- Decided
- 4 April 2019
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, AJAY RASTOGI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14(1); Succession Act Section 14(1)
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956: s. 14(1) - Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property - Mere possession of property by a female, if sufficient to claim right u/s. 14(1) - Held: Mere possession would not confer pre-existing right of possession over the subject property to after the Act, 1956 came into force by operation of law - Section 14(1) clearly envisage that the possession of the female must be under some vestige of a claim, right or title or under any of the devise which has been purported under the law - On facts, claim of the appellant-daughter
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