Tag: Property rights
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Daughters have right over parental property even if father died prior to amended 2005 Act: SC
The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, an amendment to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, received the assent from President of India on 5 September 2005 and was given effect from 9 September 2005.
August 11, 2020 -
J-K women, Dalits ignored in past, now human rights a ‘global buzzword’: Sitharaman on Article 370
On the massive restrictions placed in the state, the Finance Minister claimed that it was only for the first week after the removal of Article 370.
October 17, 2019 -
Himachal polls: Tribal women drop ‘political recourse’ for property rights
Elections have come and gone, but struggle for tribal women to fight the ‘customary inequality’ has not ended. Every time, they submit a memorandum, asking the politicians in Kinnaur to lobby for their issue of scrapping or amending the customary law that bars tribal women from inheriting ancestral property, they get only ‘lip sympathy’. “We …
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November 7, 2017