Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 258 · Decided 9 October 1991
State of Punjab v. Balwant Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 258 · [1991] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 458
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 851/1991
- Decided
- 9 October 1991
- Bench
- K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY, YOGESHWAR DAYAL (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 15(1), 29, 15; Succession Act Section 15(1)
Headnote
PUNJAB v. BALWANT SINGH & ORS. OCTOBER 9, 1991 B [K JAGANNATHA SHETTY AND YOGESHWAR DAYAL, JJ.) Hindu Succession Act, 1956: Section 15(1) and (2f-Hindu female dying intestate leaving behind property derived from her husband-Devolution of-O~ject of sub-section C (2)(h)-Not to eliminate the of heirs~vailabi/ity of heirs under sub­ D section ( 1) or (2) of Section 15--Whether precludes escheat. One Smt. 'M' inherited from her husband certain agricultural lands. Some of the lands were under mortgage and in the possession of defendants 2 to 6. She died intestate after the Hindu
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