- Supreme Court has ruled that daughters will have equal rights to their father’s property even prior to the enactment of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956.
- The case involved a dispute over the property of a person who died in 1949 leaving behind a daughter who also died issueless in 1967.
- Earlier, the trial court held that since the person had died prior to the enforcement of HSA, 1956 therefore the petitioner and her other sisters were not the heirs as on the date of his death and was not entitled to partition of share in the suit properties.
- Later, the High Court, too, dismissed the appeal against the trial court.
- It ruled that the property of a man who had died without executing a will and is survived only by a daughter will devolve upon the daughter and not others such as his brother.
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