Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 144 · Decided 7 February 2020
Kalindi Damodar Garde (D) BY LRS. v. Manohar Laxman Kulkarni (D) BY LRS. & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 144 · [2020] 2 S.C.R. 632
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6642/2010
- Decided
- 7 February 2020
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 3(a), 4; Succession Act Section 3(a), 4
Headnote
Succession: Whether the sons of adoptee (who were born prior to his adoption) are entitled to inherit the property of the adoptive family of their father - Held: Succession in the present case in the facts of the case has to be with Hindu Succession Act and not as per Hindu Law -There is no provision in the Act denying the right of succession to the natural born son of an adoptee father - All the children either born before or after adoption of their father, in terms of s. 3(a) and (e) and Schedule of the
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