Supreme Court of India

Rajendra Kumar v. Kalyan (dead) by Lrs.

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 114

Bench S.B. Majmudar and U.C. Banerjee JJ.

Decided 2 August 2000

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From the headnote

Hindu law: Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 : Section 8-Adoption-By widow to her husband-Held, Shastric law is applicable in such cases. Adoption-By widow to her husband-Pre-requisites-Held, the Husband should expressly authorise his widow, under Shastric law, to adopt a child to him-Adoption of a child without such express authority rightly held illegal by courts below. Section 12(c}-Adoption-Commencement of-Widow adopted to her deceased husband a child who was born after his death-Child's claim that by a legal.fiction he inherited the property of his deceased adoptive father from

Authorities it was built on

1957 Garikapatti Veeraya v. N. Subbiah Choudhury cited by 54
1976 Jose Da Costa & Another v. Bascora Sadashiva Sinai Narcornim & Anr. cited by 17
1964 Gulabchand Chhotalal Parikh v. Siate of Bombay (now Gujarat) cited by 15

Where later benches applied it

2025 M/s A.P. Electrical Equipment Corporation v. The Tahsildar & Ors. Etc. relied on
2023 Tata Sons Pvt Ltd (formerly Tata Sons Ltd) v. Siva Industries and Holdings Ltd & Ors referred to
2017 Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Classic Credit Ltd. referred to
2013 State of U.P. v. Hari Ram referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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