Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 72 · Decided 4 April 1973
Controller of Estates Duty, Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad v. Kancharla Kesava Rao
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 72 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 897
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 107/1970
- Decided
- 4 April 1973
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, HANS RAJ KHANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
897 Estate Du~ Act, 1953, Ss. 7 and 24-Partition-Allo~men! to ,wid~w bl meonbr of a Hindu undivided family property for life t11ne in lieu of her share-If liable to estate duty on her ·death, A partition was effected among the members of a Hindu undivided family by a registered partition who had a right to inherit her husband's share in the non-agricultural properties as well as the right to be maintained from out of the family income, gave up those rights, and i;n lieu thereof, the other members of the family allottc-<l to her share 25 acres of land to be enjoyed by her
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