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Notice to deceased assessee must first be served on legal heirs; once on record, legal heirs represent deceased assessee: ITAT
In the present case, notice under Section 148 of Income Tax Act, 1861 is not served on legal heir of the assessee. The said notice is served on the assessee, even after the knowledge that the assessee is deceased.
Will personal right of action survive by transfer to legal heir upon original plaintiff’s death? Delhi HC answers
“The nature of infringement of his legal rights, if any, which were claimed by the deceased/plaintiff, were personal to him and certainly not heritable”
Delhi High Court calls the petition filed for claiming property rights on United Province of Agra including Delhi, Gurgaon and Uttarakhand as frivolous; imposes 10,000 as costs
The Petitioner claimed to be the successor and heir of the Beswan family and claims property rights to the Beswan Avibhajya Rajya as its ruler, which consists of United Province of Agra running between river Yamuna and Ganga from Agra to Meerut, Aligarh, Bulandshahr including, 65 revenue estates of Delhi Gurgaon and Uttarakhand.
Kerala High Court upholds non-issuance of Legal Heirship Certificate in the absence of adoption documents
Kerala High Court was not satisfied with the petitioner’s claims of being an adopted daughter of the deceased.
Never Reported Judgment | Can property acquired through invalid adoption be considered joint family property? [1951 SCC 557]
This report covers the Supreme Court's Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1951 on whether the property acquired through invalid adoption, will be considered as joint family property.
“Definition of ‘victim’ as found in CrPC cannot be rendered a restrictive meaning”; Karnataka HC holds that legal heir has locus to continue the case initiated by the deceased complainant
Karnataka High Court: In the instant petition for quashment, the issue arose that whether a legal heir should be permitted to come
Married daughter cannot claim compassionate appointment as a right; certainly not years after employee’s death: Supreme Court
Supreme Court: In a case where a married daughter of the deceased was claiming compassionate appointment, the bench of MR Shah* and
Can legal heir of deceased employee be granted compassionate appointment, who took voluntary retirement due to being medically unfit? Bom HC decides
Bombay High Court: Ravindra V. Ghuge, J., decides a matter as to whether the benefit of compassionate appointment can be granted to
All HC | Wife’s appeal against divorce decree withdrawn due to reconciliation and cohabitation with husband. Later, husband passed away. Is she entitled to maintenance under Hindu Adoptions & Maintenance Act? Read on
Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Dr Kaushal Jayendra Thaker and Ajit Singh, JJ., while setting aside a decree of divorce
Restrictive interpretation of “victim” and “legal heir” in the light of sections 2(wa) and 372 of CrPC, overruled
Delhi High Court: In reference of a matter to Full Bench concerning locus standi of private parties to maintain appeals by virtue