Saloni Subha ( Intern Journalist ) considering that daughters cannot be deprived of their right to equality, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that daughters will have equal Inheritance rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment ) Act, 2005.
The provisions contained in substituted section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, confer the status of coparcener on the daughter born before or after the amendment in the same manner as a son with the same rights and liabilities, said A three-judge bench of Justices Arun Mishra, S Nazeer, and MR Shah.
The verdict of the Supreme Court makes it clear that the amendment to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, granting equal Inheritance rights to daughters to inherit ancestral property would have retrospect effect.” The daughters cannot be deprived of their right to equality … we request that the pending matters be decided as far possible, within six months”, the bench said.
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