Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1129 · Decided 22 November 2017
Ratanlal @ Babulal Chunilal Samsuka v. Sundarabai Govardhandas Samsuka(D) TH. LRS.& ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1129 · [2017] 11 S.C.R. 28
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6378/2013
- Decided
- 22 November 2017
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956: C ss.2(a), 3 and JO - Adoption - Of a married man aged 32 years - Challenged - Held: A person, if married, cannot be adopted, unless there is 47 custom or usage, as defined ins. 3(a), permits so - For establishinff a valid custom, certainty, long usage anc( reasonability - Customs, at variance with general D law must be proved strictly - Appel/a/If, in the present case has failed to prove that the custom on which he was relying had attained the status of general custom prevalent among the concerned communizv - The
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