Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1120 · Decided 26 September 1996
Ram Avtar and ORS. v. Ram Dhani and Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1120 · [1996] SUPP. 7 S.C.R. 45
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1803/1982
- Decided
- 26 September 1996
- Bench
- N.P. SINGH, FAIZAN UDDIN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 115; Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
B 'O U.P. Zamindar Abolition and Land Refonns Act, 1950: S.18-Hindu Undivided Family-Widow given land for maintenance u11der a compromise in 1932--Mutatio11 effected-Widow executing a sa~ c deed on 6.4.1956-Sale of land challenged by other members of the family · 011 the ground that she had and Settlement Of-, fleer (Co11solidation) upheld widow's right to transfer the land-Deputy Direc- tor of Consolidation in revision set aside the orders-High Court in writ petition held that widow had acquired absolute right under s.18 of the D Act-Appellants contending that s.11 and not s.18
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