Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 224 · Decided 5 April 2021
Kiran Devi v. The Bihar State Sunni Wakf Board & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 224 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 86
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6149/2015
- Decided
- 5 April 2021
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, S. ABDUL NAZEER, HEMANT GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 227
Headnote
Hindu Law: Hindu joint family property - Presumption of - Held: There can be presumption of Hindu joint family property if the property has been acquired by the male member or if the same has been treated as joint Hindu family - However, no such to a business activity carried out by an individual in a tenanted premise - Even if a male member had taken premises on rent, he is tenant in his individual capacity and not as Karta of Hindu Undivided Family in the absence of any evidence that Karta was doing the business for and on
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