Supreme Court of India

The Controller of Estate Duty, Mysore Bangalore v. Haji Abdul Sattar Sait & Ors.

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Reported as [1973] 1 S.C.R. 231
Bench S.M. Sikri J.
Decided 19 April 1972

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Estate Duty Act (34 of 1953- ss. 3 and 64(i)---Cutchi Memon family -Father dying leaving properties-Whether sons Inherited the property or the property devolved on snns by survivorship-Applicability of Hindu Law of son's right by birth in joint family property to Cute/ii Memons. The Cutchi Memons bad migrated from Cutcb to Bombay, Madras and_ other places. They were originally Hindus and were converted to Islam three or four hundred years ago. The family of the responde\}ts originally settled in Madras, and between 1928 and 1930, went over to Mysore and settled down in the Bangalore Civil

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