Supreme Court of India

Namdev Vyankat Ghadge and Anr. v. Chandrakant Ganpat Ghadge and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] 2 S.C.R. 299
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Shivaraj V. Patil JJ.
Decided 25 February 2003

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Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956-Section 12 proviso (c)­ Adoption-Ejfect of-Whether adopted child entitled to claim any share in property already vested in heirs of sole surviving coparcener before his adoption-Held: No, since adopted child cannot divest any person of any estate which vested in him before adoption. The question which arose for consideration in this appeal was whether the son adopted subsequent to the death of the sole surviving coparcener could divest the heirs of the sole surviving coparcener of the property which vested in them prior to his adoption to claim his

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