Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 319 · Decided 29 March 2023
Prasanta Kumar Sahoo & ORS. v. Charulata Sahu & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 319 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 20
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2913/2018
- Decided
- 29 March 2023
- Bench
- A.S. BOPANNA, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Hindu Succession Act Section 6; Succession Act Section 6
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956- Amendment in law governing the parties - Partition suit - s.6, 1956 Act was amended by 2005 Amendment, before the conclusion of the final decree proceedings - Effect of - Held: Partition suit is required to be decided in stages and regarded as fully and completely decided only when the final decree is passed - Thus, as the law governing the parties was amended before the conclusion of the final decree proceedings, the party benefitted by such amendment (like the two daughters in the present case) can make a request to
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