Supreme Court of India

Prakash & Ors. v. Phulavati & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 12 S.C.R. 579
Bench Anil R. Dave and Adarsh Kumar Goel JJ.
Decided 16 October 2015
Status Overruled

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the rights under the amendment are applicable to living daughters of living coparceners as on 9th September, 2005 irrespective of when C such daughters are born.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005: ss. 6(1 ), 6(3), 6(5) - Whether the Act will have c retrospective operation - Held: No - The legislature has. expressly made the Amendment applicable on and from its. commencement. s. 6(1 ), (5), proviso - Right of daughter of coparcener in coparcenery properties - Held: Rights under the amendment are applicable to Jiving daughters of living coparceners as on 9th September, 2005 irrespective of when such daughters are born - Proviso to s. 6(1) and s. 6(5) clearly intend to exclude the transactions referred to therein which may have taken place prior to

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