Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 14 · Decided 1 January 2025
Sri Mahesh v. Sangram & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 14 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 62
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 36/2025
- Decided
- 1 January 2025
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Transfer of Property Act Section 122; Hindu Succession Act Section 14(1), 12(c), 13, 14, 12; Succession Act Section 13, 14, 12
Headnote
Issue arose whether by virtue of operation of the provisions of ss. 14(1) and 12(c) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the defendant no.1-adoptive mother would become absolute owner of the property prior to the adoption of appellant-adopted son; and as regards the effect of executed thereafter by adoptive mother. Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - ss.13, 14 - Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 - ss.12, 16 - Transfer of Property Act, 1882 - s.122 - Effects of adoption - Principle of Relation Back -
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