Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 576 · Decided 20 December 2002
Jinia Keotin and ORS. v. Kumar Sitaram Manjhi and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 576 · [2002] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 689
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7247/1995
- Decided
- 20 December 2002
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, SHIVARAJ V. PATIL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498; Hindu Marriage Act Section 16(3), 16
Headnote
AND ORS. A v. KUMAR SITARAM MANJHI AND ORS. DECEMBER 20, 2002 [DORAISWAMY RAJU AND SHIVARAJ V. PATIL, JJ.) B Hindu Marriage Act, 1955-Section 16(3)-Right of illegitimate child to inherit properly-Plea that right should not be limited only to property of their parents, but also to coparcenary /I would also amount to Court relegislating on the subject under the guise of interpretation. In a partition suit, children born out of unlawful wedlock were held D entitled to claim their due share in the property of their parents, by the T~ial Court which was upheld by the First
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