Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 366 · Decided 7 September 1994
SMT. Radhika v. Aghnu Ram Mahto
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 366 · [1994] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 207
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2280/1984
- Decided
- 7 September 1994
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, N. VENKATACHALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 15; Succession Act
Headnote
B Hindu Law Hindu Succession Act 1956:·Sections 15 and 16. Hindu fem ale inheriting property of great grand-father through C mother-Dying intestate-Husband claiming a share in the estate-Held hus­ band stood excluded from succession to such property. The appellant's mother inherited the of the appellant) for half of the share as Class-I heir of his wife (appellant's mother) was rejected by the Trial Court. On appeal the District Judge held that the appellant and the respondent are class· I heirs and decreed the suit in equal .moiety. The appellant's second appeal was
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