Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 228 · Decided 9 September 1969
Satya Charan Dutta v. Urmilla Sundari Dassi & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 228 · [1970] 2 S.C.R. 294
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1356/1956
- Decided
- 9 September 1969
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 15, 16; Succession Act
Headnote
B Hi11d11 S11ccessi01> Act (30 of 1956), ss. 8, 9, 11,. 15 and 16:­ Hindu widow dying intestate-Husband's brothers and a sister on~y heirs -Property, that of llusba1ul-If brolhers take in preference to .nsler or all take eaual/y. Under ss. 15 and 16 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, which where the properly is that of her husband, the heirs would be those set out in s. 8. Under s. 8, there arc two classes of heirs mentioned in the Schedule to the Act. Jn Class 11 there are lX entries and only in entries •II, Ill and IV the heirs arc mentioned as against arabic numerals.
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