Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 758 · Decided 9 October 2015
Om Prakash SHARMA@O.P. Joshi v. Rajendra Prasad Shewda & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 758 · [2015] 10 S.C.R. 574
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8609/2009
- Decided
- 9 October 2015
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 32(5); Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
Hindu law: Property dispute - Purchase of property by husband in the name of wife - Held: In the instant case, C property was purchased from the funds of husband for the benefit of his wife and therefore she was the real owner of the property- This was in accordance with the practice family where husband normally looks after and 0 manages the property of the wife - Benami transaction - Hindu Women's Right to Property Act, 1937. Adoption: Claim over property by plaintiff on the ground that the said property devolved upon her husband who was E adopted by the o,wner of the said
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