Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 665 · Decided 8 September 2011
Marabasappa (D) BY LRS. & ORS. v. Ningappa (D) BY LRS. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 665 · [2011] 12 S.C.R. 435
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3495/2001
- Decided
- 8 September 2011
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, H.L. DATTU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14; Succession Act Section 14
Headnote
A B Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - s. 14 - Rights of female Hindu under - Held: Any property of a female Hindu is her . C absolute property - She has full ownership over any property that she has acquired on her own or as stridhana - She may dispose of the same as per her wish, and the same shall of the joint Hindu family property - There is no presumption that of jqint family property, and there must be some strong evidence in .favour of the same - On facts, D propositor after maffiage lived in the paternal house of his wife ('PJ - 'P' was gifted a propsrty by her father by a gift deed
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