Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 865 · Decided 17 July 2025
Ram Charan & ORS. v. Sukhram & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 865 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 272
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9537/2025
- Decided
- 17 July 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, JOYMALYA BAGCHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14; Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
Issue arose whether a tribal woman or her legal heirs would be entitled to an equal share in her ancestral property or not. Succession - Right of inheritance of tribal woman to ancestral property - Legal heirs of a woman belonging to a belonging to their maternal grandfather - Suit dismissed by the courts below holding that the legal heirs failed to establish their right over such property by way of custom, showing that female heir entitled thereto - Correctness: Held: Keeping with the principles of justice,
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