Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 561 · Decided 6 November 2001
Bhagat Ram (D) BY LRS. v. Teja Singh (D) BY LRS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 561 · [2001] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 143
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3663/1984
- Decided
- 6 November 2001
- Bench
- U.C. BANERJEE, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 15(1); Succession Act Section 15(1)
Headnote
B Hindu Law: Hindu Succession Act, 1956: Sections 15(1) and (2). Female Hindu-Dying, intestate-Property of-Rules of succession- C Female Hindu inherited property from her nwther-On her death pmperty mutated in the name of her sister-Such female Hindu's husband's brother.filed a suit claiming that which was affirmed by High Court-Correctness qf­ Held: {fa .female Hindu inherits a property .from her father or mother, in the D absence qf a('y son or daughter qf the deceased inchuling the children of any pre-deceased son or daughte1; it would devolve upon the heirs qf her father under
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