Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 74 · Decided 20 January 2022
Arunachala Gounder (Dead) BY LRS. v. Ponnusamy and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 74 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 269
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6659/2011
- Decided
- 20 January 2022
- Bench
- S. ABDUL NAZEER, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14, 15(2); Succession Act Section 14, 15(2)
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956: Self acquired property of male Hindu dying intestate - Right of daughter of such male Hindu to inherit - Held: If a property of a male Hindu dying intestate is a self acquired property or obtained in partition of a co-parcenery or a family property, by inheritance and not by survivorship, and a daughter of such a male Hindu would be entitled to inherit such property in preference to other collaterals - In the case at hands, since the property in question was admittedly the self-acquired property of male Hindu despite the family
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