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Posts by Devendra Damle

Time to end gender based discrimination in the Hindu Succession Act, even in the matters of devolution

22/09/2020

In its recent judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that a daughter has the same rights as a son in an ancestral property under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, regardless of when the father may have died. The principle law - the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (HSA) - originally did not grant ...
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