Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 395 · Decided 14 August 2003
Ramabai Padmakar Patil (D) Through LRS. and ORS. v. Rukminibai Vishnu Vekhande and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 395 · [2003] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 583
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 15697/1996
- Decided
- 14 August 2003
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, G.P. MATHUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 63, 68; Succession Act Section 63, 68
Headnote
B ~ Hindu Succession Act, 1957; Ss. 63 and 68: Testamentary disposition of the property by a widow/mother in favolfr c of her widowed daughter excluding other heirs-:Declaratory suit filed by the daughter-Court decreed the suit-Reversed by the first appellate Court- Affirmed by the High Court-On after the testator for quite a long period-Execution of Will in her favour was most natural and probable conduct of a mother-Since a Will is executed to alter the mode of succession, reducing/depriving the share of heirs by the testator could not be made a ground to cast doubts on the D
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