Supreme Court of India

Ram Swaroop and Anr. v. Mahindru and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 1064
Decided 18 December 2003

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we answer question No. (a) in the affirmative and in favour of the appellants; the subsequent applicability of the Hindu Widows Re-marriage Act 1856 can have no retrospective effect and cannot take C away the right of the widow who got the property in the year 1932.

Judgment, page 20

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