Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 14 · Decided 8 January 2020
M. Arumugam v. Ammaniammal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 14 · [2020] 1 S.C.R. 41
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8642/2009
- Decided
- 8 January 2020
- Bench
- S. ABDUL NAZEER, DEEPAK GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 4(b), 6, 8, 19, 30; Succession Act Section 4(b), 6, 8, 19, 30
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - ss.4(b), 6, 8, 19 & 30 - Joint family - Role of Karta vis-a-vis minor members - Defendant nos.1 & 2 formed coparcenary, with their father, which owned the suit property - Father died intestate - 1/3 of the property went to was to be inherited by defendant no.5 (wife), defendant nos.1 & 2 and three daughters viz. the plaintiff (youngest daughter) and defendant nos.3 & 4 - Plaintiff filed suit claiming that the property falling to the share of the father be partitioned - Defendant nos.1 &
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