Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 611 · Decided 14 September 2010

Gaddam Ramakrishnareddy & ORS. v. Gaddam Rami Reddy & ANR.

Court
Supreme Court of India
Citation
2010 INSC 611 · [2010] 11 S.C.R. 656
Case number
SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 3004/2008
Decided
14 September 2010
Bench
ALTAMAS KABIR, A.K. PATNAIK (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) - Applicability of - If a right is created in a Hindu female for the first time in C respect of any property under any instrument or under a decree/order/award, where a restricted estate in such property is prescribed - Held: Provisions of subsection (1) of s. by virtue of sub-section (2) and would not convert such a right into a full-fledged right of ownership D of the property - Provisions of s. 14(2) would be attracted - On facts, courts below rightly held that life-estate created in favour of wife by a gift deed executed by husband with the

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