Delhi HC: Ancestral property can be attached under PMLA if property represents value equivalent to proceeds of crime
“The plea of the property being ancestral does not ipso facto grants immunity from attachment under the PMLA.”
Ancestral Property
Daughters’ Property Rights under Hindu Law – Before & After 2005 Amendment
This article offers a clear overview of daughters’ property rights under Hindu law—how the law under Hindu Succession Act, 1956 worked before the 2005 Amendment, and how the amendment transformed daughters into coparceners by birth. It traces the major Supreme Court rulings leading up to Vineeta Sharma (2020) 9 SCC 1, clarifies common myths, and answers practical FAQs.
Year in Review 2025: Defining Landmark Supreme Court Judgments of 2025
With the departure of year 2025 a recap of the most notable decisions of the Supreme Court of India is a must. 2025 has been a landmark year especially in respect to verdicts on judicial services, environmental causes such as Aravali Hills, activism for stray animals. The Court also laid to rest the questions of Governor and President’s powers vis-a-vis giving assent to Bills and flagged pendency of cheque bounce cases in courts.
Legal heirs of landowners not entitled to project affected persons quota; Future recruitment permitted only if eligibility criteria met: Bombay High Court
“The petitioner claiming appointment on the basis of grandfather’s land being acquired almost 45 years back and claiming to be a project affected persons was contrary to the advertisement.”
Bombay HC dismisses appeal in property dispute between brothers over alleged fraudulent gift deed
“It was arguable that an educated person had executed a document which was registered and then claimed ignorance of the nature of the transfer, which could not be fathomed.”
Know Thy Judge | Justice Sanjay Karol’s inspirational journey from India’s first heritage village to the Supreme Court
Hailing from Garli, India’s first heritage village, Justice Sanjay Karol served his parent High Court of Himachal Pradesh as Acting Chief Justice and High Courts of Tripura and Patna as Chief Justice before his elevation as a Supreme Court Judge on 06-02-2023.
Ancestral Property: Key Supreme Court Rulings You Should Know
“Ancestral property is a rightful heritage, not a personal asset.”
Supreme Court July 2025 | Stories & Judgments on Electoral Roll revision; Recorded spousal conversations; Tribal woman’s right to ancestral property and more
Stay informed on the latest Supreme Court judgments of July 2025 on Bihar’s Electoral Roll revision, recording of spousal conversations; Tribal woman’s rights over ancestral property; Guidelines on collection of DNA evidence and mental health of college students. Explore notable rulings shaping the legal landscape.
Whether a Tribal Woman or her legal heirs will have any entitlement over equal share in ancestral property? Supreme Court answers
“One would think that in this day and age, where great strides have been made in realizing the constitutional goal of equality, this Court would not need to intervene for equality between the successors of a common ancestor and the same should be a given, irrespective of their biological differences, but it is not so”.
NRJ Series | Mere proof of outstandings at one time not sufficient to establish if it is due to ancestral estate, or to person re-investing/dealing in ancestral estate income [(1954) 1 SCC 598]
This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment, on ancestral property, dating back to the year 1954.
Bereft senior citizen in-laws have the right to maintain peaceful possession of self-acquired property; Delhi High Court affirms eviction order of daughter-in-law
While interpreting the provisions of Senior Citizens Act, 2007, the Courts must bear the objectives and purposes for which the statute was enacted.
Ancestral Property: Latest Supreme Court Judgments
We often get to hear the term ‘ancestral property’, but the exact meaning of the term remains unknown to most of us.
Delhi High Court| Pendency of a partition suit by the son against his parents is no deterrent to the proceedings under Senior Citizens Act, 2007
Senior Citizens have every right to protect themselves and in case of ill-treatment and abuse by their children/ legal heirs, can approach the Maintenance Tribunal for their eviction from their property of any kind, which includes both Ancestral as well as Self Acquired Property.
Chhattisgarh High Court entitles father-in-law to pay maintenance; “Estate of the husband can be preferred to claim over the estate of father or mother of daughter in law”
Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of Goutam Bhaduri and Deepak Kumar Tiwari JJ. entitled father-in-law to pay maintenance to widowed daughter-in-law
In a suit for partition, the heads of all the branches are necessary parties: Bom HC
Bombay High Court: Mangesh S. Patil, J., decided on the following questions for consideration: Whether in a suit for partition and possession
Daughters as Co-parceners | S. 6 of Hindu Succession Act prevails over S. 29-A inserted by Maharashtra Amendment; wasn’t necessary for Parliament to repeal S. 29-A: Bom HC
Bombay High Court, Bench at Aurangabad: Vibha Kankanwadi, J., while addressing a matter revolving around the property, observed that, Article 254 of
Self-Acquired Property of father on mortgage, can sons interfere with father’s right to dispose and deal with property? Sikkim HC explains
Sikkim High Court: If a father keeps his self-acquired property for the purpose of mortgage, can his sons interfere in the same?
“Daughters are daughters forever and sons are sons till they are married”: Bom HC orders son to vacate flat of 90 yrs old parents
Bombay High Court: Noting the misery of parents aged 90 years, G.S. Kulkarni, J., observed that, “Daughters are daughters forever and sons
Under Parents and Senior Citizens Act, is it necessary to find out whether property belongs to parent exclusively or is a shared household in which daughter-in-law has rights? Bom HC deciphers
Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and Madhav J. Jamdar, JJ., while explaining the provisions under Maintenance and Welfare
