Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 590 · Decided 18 May 2022
Munni Devi Alias Nathi Devi (Dead) THR LRS. & ORS. v. Rajendra Alias Lallu Lal (Dead) THR LRS. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 590 · [2022] 3 S.C.R. 876
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5894/2019
- Decided
- 18 May 2022
- Bench
- AJAY RASTOGI, BELA M. TRIVEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14, 14(1); Succession Act Section 14
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956: s.14 - Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property - Hindu widow - Right to hindu undivided property - Held: Hindu woman's right to maintenance is a tangible right against the the spiritual relationship between the husband and the wife - Where a Hindu widow is found to be in exclusive settled legal possession of the HUF property, that itself would create a presumption that such property was earmarked for realization of her pre-existing right of maintenance,
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