Supreme Court of India

Munni Devi Alias Nathi Devi (dead) Thr Lrs. & Ors. v. Rajendra Alias Lallu Lal (dead) Thr Lrs. & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 3 S.C.R. 876
Bench Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi JJ.
Decided 18 May 2022

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Hindu Succession Act, 1956: s.14 – Property of a fe male Hindu to be her absolute property – Hindu widow – Right to hin du undivided property – Held: Hindu woman’s right to maintenance is a tangible right against the property which flows from t he spiritual relationship between the husband and the wife – Whe re a Hindu widow is found to be in exclusive settled legal pos session of the HUF property, that itself would create a presumptio n that such property was earmarked for realization of her pre-exist ing right of maintenance, more particularly when the surviving co-parcener did not earmark

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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