Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 261 · Decided 11 October 1991
Madhu Kishwar and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 261 · [1991] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 477
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5723/1982
- Decided
- 11 October 1991
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, KULDIP SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Amount Awarded
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
AND ORS. A v • ..._,_,. STATE OF BIHAR OCTOBER 11, 1991 (RANGANATH MISRA, CJ. AND KULDIP SINGH, J.) B Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908: S.s. 7, 8-Scheduled Tribes--Succession to property--Confined to male in the male line-lnclusio11 of female heirs~ecessity for. c Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act, of the Chhota Nagpur area contended that the provisions of Sections 7 & 8 of the Act were discriminatory against women and, D --<( therefore, ultra vires the equality clause in the Constitution. -... The Court at an earlier st.age while hearing one of the writ petitions, gave time to the
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