Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 460 · Decided 3 April 2019
Hammad Ahmed v. Abdul Majeed & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 460 · [2019] 6 S.C.R. 402
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3382/2019
- Decided
- 3 April 2019
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
Succession - To the Office of Chief Mutawalli - Rule of Primogeniture - When not applicable - One 'HAM' started the Hamdard Dawakhana as sole proprietor - Died leaving behind his wife and two sons, 'AH' and 'MS' - These three the affairs of Hamdard - 'AH' became the sole surviving Wakif Mutawalli in terms of the 1948 Deed - In 1964, the Wakif Mutawalli appointed his two sons 'AM' and 'HA'-appellant as Mutawallis - Wakif Mutawalli issued various declarations from
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