Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 251 · Decided 31 March 2011
Revanasiddappa and ANR. v. Mallikarjun and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 251 · [2011] 4 S.C.R. 675
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2844/2011
- Decided
- 31 March 2011
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Matter referred to larger bench
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 300A, 39(f); Hindu Marriage Act Section 16(3)
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: B s.16(3) - Right of illegitimate children in the coparcenary c property of their parents - Whether illegitimate children are entitled to a share in the coparcenary property or whether their share is limited only to the self-acquired property of their parents uls.16(3) - that a child of a void or voidable marriage can only claim rights to the 0 property of his parents, and no one else - The legislature has advisedly used the word "property" and has not qualified it with either self-acquired property or ancestral property - It has been kept broad and
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