Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 114 · Decided 19 April 1972
The Controller of Estate Duty, Mysore Bangalore v. Haji Abdul Sattar Sait & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 114 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 231
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1354/1968
- Decided
- 19 April 1972
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA, HANS RAJ KHANNA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Estate Duty Act (34 of 1953- ss. 3 and 64(i)---Cutchi Memon family -Father dying leaving properties-Whether sons Inherited the property or the property devolved on snns by survivorship-Applicability of Hindu Law of son's right by birth in joint family property to Cute/ii Memons. bad migrated from Cutcb to Bombay, Madras and_ other places. They were originally Hindus and were converted to Islam three or four hundred years ago. The family of the responde\}ts originally settled in Madras, and between 1928 and 1930, went over to Mysore and settled down in the Bangalore Civil
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