The judgment created by Judge Karol noted that customs, as well as the law, could not remain stuck in time. | Photo Credit: Hind
On Thursday (July 17, 2025), the Supreme Court confirmed the right of legal heirs to the planned tribal woman to the same share in the property of their grandfather.
“There seems to be no rational connection or reasonable classification for only men to be given a sequence over the owners of their ancestors and not women, rather if no ban on such effect can be proven under law… Article 15 (1)) Justices Sanjay Karol and Joymalya Bagchi.
The court stated that the woman would only reject her right to the share of property has only deepened sex discrimination.
The judgment was based on the appeal by legal heirs looking for the division of the assets belonging to their grandfathers.
The judgment created by Judge Karol noted that customs, as well as the law, could not remain stuck in time.
“Others cannot be allowed to resort to or hide behind them to deprive others of their right,” the court noted.
Lower courts rejected lawyers who stated that their mother did not have the right to the property of their father, on the basis that the planned tribes are not followed by the Hindu Act on the Sequence. The Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal ruled that there was no evidence that children of women were also entitled to property.
The Supreme Court, which allowed the appeal, stated that the denial of the heirs of a woman in the share of their grandfather would violate their right to equality.
Published – 17th July 2025 22:08
