Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 319 · Decided 12 December 1975
Sheo Kuer v. Nathuni Prasad Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 319 · [1976] 2 S.C.R. 1002
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1815/1969
- Decided
- 12 December 1975
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, R.S. SARKARIA, A.C. GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 133(1)(b); Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
Widow's Estate-Po1vers of a Hindu Female Id alienate t/ie properly dei·olv- ed, for religious purposes-Test of reasonableness of cdienation. • c Kachnar Kuer, Olli whom·th•e. prope,rty of her late husband devolved, executed two regi~tered deeds. By one oi' these she adopted a religious endow­ ment in the name of Shri Gopalji, appointing her mother-in-law Shw Kuer, the appellant as the shebait. The respondents claiming to be the reversioners filed a suit for declaration that the •wo deeds were void, illegal and not binding on their reversionary inter­
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