Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1264 · Decided 9 December 2022
Kamla Neti (Dead) Through LRS. v. The Special Land Acquisition Officer & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1264 · [2022] 18 S.C.R. 441
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6901/2022
- Decided
- 9 December 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21; Hindu Succession Act Section 2(2); Land Acquisition Act Section 30; Succession Act Section 2(2)
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956: s.2(2) - Non-applicability of the provisions of the Act to the members of Scheduled Tribe - Appellant- daughter of one of the coparceners claiming 1/5th share in the amount of compensation with respect to the land acquired by the settled in favour of the other coparceners only - Rejection of the claim of the appellant by the Reference Court since the parties being Scheduled Tribe,the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act not applicable- Upheld by the High Court- On appeal, held: As per s. 2(2), the Act
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