Supreme Court of India

Smt. Kasturi Devi v. Deputy Director of Consolidation & Ors.

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Reported as [1977] 2 S.C.R. 25
Decided 4 November 1976

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Hindu Succession .ct, 1956-Whether remarriage would bar a mother fr•m succeeding as son's heir. • On the demise of Karuna, ther were two rival claims for inheritance to his property. One by the appellant who claimed it as bis widowed mother, and the other by his father's brother who contended that the appellant had remarried and was thereby barred from succeeding as Karna's heir. After the consolidation officer had decided against her, and the settlement officer, Etah Camp, Aligarh, in her favour, the Deputy Director of Consolidation decided a revision petition against the appellant holding

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