Justice Bibhu Datta Guru High Court of Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh High Court Reaffirms Daughters’ Equal Rights in Ancestral Property, Rejects Oral Partition Claims

The Chhattisgarh High Court has once again underlined that daughters have the same coparcenary rights as sons in ancestral property, ruling that alleged oral partitions cannot be used to deny women their lawful share under the Hindu Succession Act. The judgment was delivered in a second appeal filed by Amrika Bai, who had challenged earlier…

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Chhattisgarh High Court Rules Hindu Inheritance Before 1956 Governed by Mitakshara Law

The High Court of Chhattisgarh has dismissed a second appeal filed by the legal representative of the late Smt. Ragmania, upholding earlier rulings that denied her claim over ancestral property in Surguja district. Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas delivered the judgment in Second Appeal No. 178 of 2014, reaffirming that since the plaintiff’s father, Sudhin, died…

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